1970s and 'Patient 0' HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America

Nature

Volumn 539, Issue 7627, 2016, Pages 98-101

  Worobey, Michael ^a   Watts, Thomas D ^a   McKay, Richard A ^b   Suchard, Marc A ^c   Granade, Timothy ^d   Teuwen, Dirk E ^e   Koblin, Beryl A ^f   Heneine, Walid ^d   Lemey, Philippe ^g   Jaffe, Harold W ^d  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e UCB Nv   (Belgium)

^f NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^g REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DIVERGENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOME; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PHYLOGENETICS; SERUM;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 GROUP M; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NEW YORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS GENOME; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; NORTH AMERICA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIROLOGY;

CARIBBEAN COAST [MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BAYES THEOREM; GENOME, VIRAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HIV-1; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; NORTH AMERICA; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84994579986     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature19827     Document Type: Article

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