Genetic characterization of eight full-length HIV type 1 genomes from the democratic republic of Congo (DRC) reveal a new subsubtype, A5, in the a radiation that predominates in the recombinant structure of CRF26-A5U

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 823-832

  Vidal, Nicole ^a   Bazepeo, Samuel Edidi ^b   Mulanga, Claire ^a   Delaporte, Eric ^a   Peeters, Martine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b Laboratoire du PNLS

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; NEF PROTEIN; POL PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS STRAIN;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DNA, VIRAL; ENV GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 70349194921     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2008.0283     Document Type: Article

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