Diversity of HIV-1 subtype C strains isolated in Romania

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 270-275

  Paraschiv, Simona ^a   Foley, Brian ^b   Otelea, Dan ^a  

^a 'Prof Dr Matei Bals' National Institute for Infectious Diseases   (Romania)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV 1 Romanian epidemic; Phylogenetic analysis; Subtype C

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; EPIDEMICS; GENETIC VARIATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV PROTEASE; HIV REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; ROMANIA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 79951948991     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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