Science in court: The myth of HIV fingerprinting

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 78-79

  Abecasis, Ana B ^a   Geretti, Anna Maria ^b   Albert, Jan ^c   Power, Lisa ^d   Weait, Matthew ^e   Vandamme, Anne Mieke ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FORENSIC SCIENCES; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 78751697974     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70283-8     Document Type: Letter

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