Article
Influence of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype on mother-to-child transmission.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Mar 2003
Tàpia Natàlia, Franco Sandra, Puig-Basagoiti Francesc, Menéndez Clara, Alonso Pedro Luis, Mshinda Hassan, Clotet Bonaventura, Saiz Juan Carlos, Martínez Miguel Angel
Abstract excerpt
The present study was designed to assess whether the subtype of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) could affect the rate of HIV-1 mother-to-child transmission in a cohort of 31 HIV-1-seropositive pregnant Tanzanian women. In order to assign a subtype to the samples analysed, nucleotide sequencing of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat U3 and C2V3C3 envelope regions was performed from the sera of these 31...
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