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High diversity of HIV-1 subtype F strains in Central Africa.
Virology - 20 Jun 1999
Triques K, Bourgeois A, Saragosti S, Vidal N, Mpoudi-Ngole E, Nzilambi N, Apetrei C, Ekwalanga M, Delaporte E, Peeters M
Abstract excerpt
In this paper, we studied the variability of HIV-1 subtype F strains in Africa. For 11 viruses, mainly of Central African origin, different parts of the genome were genetically characterized. For all strains the V3-V5 region of the envelope gene was sequenced, and for 7 strains, the entire envelope gene was studied. For 10 strains, the p24 region of the gag gene was also sequenced. For each region studied, three...
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