Article
Significance of HIV-1 genetic subtypes.
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Alaeus A
Abstract excerpt
HIV is the most significant new pathogen that emerged during the twentieth century. Since the recognition of AIDS in 1981, HIV has caused a worldwide epidemic. HIV-1 mutates extensively and shows high genetic diversity and thereby poses significant challenges for effective surveillance and disease control. At the beginning of the 1990s phylogenetic analyses of HIV-1 sequences from different sources of the world...
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