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Diversity of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat following mother-to-child transmission.
Virology - 1 Sept 2000
Blackard J T, Renjifo B, Chaplin B, Msamanga G, Fawzi W, Essex M
Abstract excerpt
A study of the human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 (HIV-1) 5' long terminal repeat (LTR) was performed to determine the extent of variation found within the LTR from 19 mother-infant pairs in Tanzania and to assess whether the LTR is useful in distinguishing maternal sequences that were transmitted to infants. HIV-1 subtypes A, C, and D as well as intersubtype recombinant LTR sequences were detected in mothers...
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