The origin of South American HIV-1 subtype C: Lack of evidence for a Mozambican ancestry

AIDS

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1926-1928

  Fontella, Rachel ^a   Soares, Marcelo A ^a,b   Schrago, Carlos G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LETTER; MOZAMBIQUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOZAMBIQUE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 70249114472     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32832effca     Document Type: Letter

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