Article
Presence of diverse human immunodeficiency virus type 1 viral variants in Cameroon.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Sept 2000
Fonjungo P N, Mpoudi E N, Torimiro J N, Alemnji G A, Eno L T, Nkengasong J N, Gao F, Rayfield M, Folks T M, Pieniazek D, Lal R B
Abstract excerpt
Phylogenetic analysis of the gp41 region of 123 HIV-1-seropositive specimens from Cameroon showed that 89 were subtype A (71% of these sequences were IbNg-like), 12 (10%) were subtype D, 11 (9%) were subtype G, 5 (4%; closely related to subtype F2) were subtype F, 1 was subtype H, 2 (1.6%) remained unclassifiable, while 3 were group O. Further analysis of the two unclassifiable specimens in gag(p24), pol(prot),...
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