The analysis of near full-length genome sequences of HIV type 1 subtype A viruses from russia supports the monophyly of major intrasubtype clusters

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1340-1343

  Fernández García, Aurora ^a   Revilla, Ana ^a   Vázquez De Parga, Elena ^a   Vinogradova, Anna ^b   Rakhmanova, Aza ^c   Karamov, Eduard ^d   Carrera, Cristina ^a   Delgado, Elena ^a   Pérez Álvarez, Lucía ^a   Nájera, Rafael ^a   Osmanov, Saladin ^e   Thomson, Michael M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b St Petersburg AIDS Center   (Russian Federation)

^c Botkin's Infectious Diseases Hospital   (Russian Federation)

^d D I IVANOVSKY INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; CYPRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; KAZAKHSTAN; MONOPHYLY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UZBEKISTAN; VIRUS GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYPRUS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; KAZAKHSTAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POL GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PREVALENCE; RUSSIA; UZBEKISTAN;

EID: 84866650953     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: 19318405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2011.0393     Document Type: Article

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