Short communication: Molecular epidemiology of HIV type 1 in the republic of dagestan, Russian federation: Virtually uniform circulation of subtype A, former soviet union variant, with predominance of the V77IPR subvariant

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 395-400

  Vinogradova, Anna ^a   Gafurova, Elmira ^a   Muñoz Nieto, Mercedes ^b   Rakhmanova, Aza ^c   Osmanov, Saladin ^d   Thomson, Michael M ^b  

^a St Petersburg AIDS Center   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c Botkin's Infectious Diseases Hospital   (Russian Federation)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ISOLEUCINE; PROTEINASE; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VALINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AZERBAIJAN; DAGESTAN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HIV INFECTIONS; HIV PROTEASE; HIV REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 77951827808     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2009.0205     Document Type: Article

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