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Importation of multiple HIV type 1 strains into West Papua, Indonesia (Irian Jaya).
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 20 Nov 2001
Foley B, Donegan E, Silitonga N, Wignall F S, Busch M P, Delwart E L
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 from 16 sexually transmitted disease clinic patients in Timika, West Papua, Indonesia was amplified by RT-PCR and subtyped by a combination of envelope and gag region heteroduplex mobility analysis (HMA) and direct PCR DNA sequencing. HMA showed the presence of 14 subtype E (CRF01_AE) and 2 subtype B HIV-1. Phylogenetic analysis of a 540-bp V3-V4 region of gp120 showed that 9 of 10 CRF01_AE variants...
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