Timing constraints of in vivo Gag mutations during primary HIV-1 subtype C infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Novitsky, Vladimir ^a,b   Wang, Rui ^c   Margolin, Lauren ^a   Baca, Jeannie ^a   Kebaabetswe, Lemme ^b   Rossenkhan, Raabya ^b   Bonney, Caitlin ^a   Herzig, Michaela ^a   Nkwe, David ^b   Moyo, Sikhulile ^b   Musonda, Rosemary ^b   Woldegabriel, Elias ^b   van Widenfelt, Erik ^b   Makhema, Joseph ^a,b   Lagakos, Stephen ^c   Essex, M ^a,b  

^a Harvard AIDS Institute   (United States)

^b BOTSWANA HARVARD AIDS INSTITUTE PARTNERSHIP   (Botswana)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; GAG PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERTANT; SEROCONVERSION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; WILD TYPE; ACUTE DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; TIME; VIROLOGY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GAG GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70450192911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007727     Document Type: Article

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