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Identification of Ugandan HIV type 1 variants with unique patterns of recombination in pol involving subtypes A and D.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 May 2002
Eshleman Susan H, Gonzales Matthew J, Becker-Pergola Graziella, Cunningham Shawn C, Guay Laura A, Jackson J Brooks, Shafer Robert W
Abstract excerpt
Most HIV-1 infections in Uganda are caused by subtypes A and D. The prevalence of recombination and the sites of specific breakpoints between these subtypes have not been reported. HIV-1 pol sequences encoding protease (amino acids 1-99) and reverse transcriptase (amino acids 1-324) from 102 pregnant Ugandan women were analyzed by the Recombinant Identification Program, SimPlot, and examination of...
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