Short communication: Molecular epidemiology of HIV type 1 infection in northern Greece (2009-2010): Evidence of a transmission cluster of HIV Type 1 Subtype A1 drug-resistant strains among men who have sex with men

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 225-232

  Antoniadou, Zoi Anna ^a   Kousiappa, Ioanna ^b   Skoura, Lemonia ^a   Pilalas, Dimitris ^c   Metallidis, Simeon ^c   Nicolaidis, Pavlos ^c   Malisiovas, Nicolaos ^a   Kostrikis, Leondios G ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NONNUCLEOSIDE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITOR; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POL GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895543597     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: 19318405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2013.0166     Document Type: Article

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