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Genetic analysis reveals ongoing HIV type 1 evolution in infected human placental trophoblast.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 10 Dec 1999
Zachar V, Zacharova V, Fink T, Thomas R A, King B R, Ebbesen P, Jones T B, Goustin A S
Abstract excerpt
To provide a better understanding of the role of placenta in vertical human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, we have studied the infection of placental trophoblast in a group of 15 mother-neonate pairs. By nested PCR amplification of the C2V3 env gene region, HIV-1 has been found to infect the placenta in five cases (33%). Phylogenetic analysis of the cloned sequences showed that all recovered maternal...
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