Evidence of at least two introductions of HIV-1 in the Amerindian Warao population from Venezuela

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Rangel, Héctor R ^a   Maes, Mailis ^b   Villalba, Julian ^b   Sulbarán, Yoneira ^a   de Waard, Jacobus H ^b   Bello, Gonzalo ^c   Pujol, Flor H ^a  

^a Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Centro de Microbiologia y Biologia Celular   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONNUCLEOSIDE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITOR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVELOPE GENE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOPHYLY; NEF GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES INTRODUCTION; STRUCTURAL GENE; TUBERCULOSIS; VENEZUELA; VIF GENE; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS RESISTANCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WARAO AMERICAN INDIAN;

BAYES THEOREM; GENES, VIRAL; GEOGRAPHY; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS; VENEZUELA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 84863737675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040626     Document Type: Article

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