High prevalence of HIV type 1 subtype B' among heterosexuals in Western Hubei, Central China: Bridging the epidemic into the general population

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1025-1028

  Li, Yue ^a   Takebe, Yutaka ^a,b   Yang, Jixian ^c   Zhang, Wei ^a   Yang, Rongge ^a  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Enshi Autonomous Prefecture Laboratory   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CHINA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CHINA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80052055950     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: 19318405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2010.0344     Document Type: Article

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