Lack of detection of XMRV in seminal plasma from HIV-1 infected men in The Netherlands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Cornelissen, Marion ^a   Zorgdrager, Fokla ^a   Blom, Petra ^a   Jurriaans, Suzanne ^a   Repping, Sjoerd ^a   van Leeuwen, Elisabeth ^a   Bakker, Margreet ^a   Berkhout, Ben ^a   van der Kuyl, Antoinette C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; POL PROTEIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRUS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PARTICLE; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS RELATED VIRUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SPERM; VIROLOGY;

GAMMARETROVIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MURINAE;

ADULT; AGED; DNA, VIRAL; GAMMARETROVIRUS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; RNA, VIRAL; SEMEN;

EID: 77957813224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012040     Document Type: Article

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