Recombination Form and Epidemiology of HIV-1 Unique Recombinant Strains Identified in Yunnan, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Li, Lin ^a   Chen, Lili ^a,c   Yang, Shaomin ^b   Li, Tianyi ^a   Li, Jianjian ^b   Liu, Yongjian ^a   Jia, Lei ^a   Yang, Bihui ^b   Bao, Zuoyi ^a   Li, Hanping ^a   Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Zhuang, Daomin ^a   Liu, Siyang ^a   Li, Jingyun ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b Yunnan Provincial Hospital Infectious Disease   (China)

^c Urumqi General Hospital of Lanzhou Military Area Command   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; POL PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CIRCULATING RECOMBINANT FORM; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; STRUCTURAL GENE; UNIQUE RECOMBINANT FORM; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

CHINA; FUSION PROTEINS, GAG-POL; HIV-1; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84867303388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046777     Document Type: Article

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