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The molecular epidemiology and drug resistance determination of HIV type 1 subtype B infection in Barbados.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Apr 2003
Gittens Marquita V, Roth William W, Roach Timothy, Stringer H Gene, Pieniazek Danuta, Bond Vincent C, Levett Paul N
Abstract excerpt
To better understand the emergence of HIV-1 variants in Barbados and the association with transmission modes, we analyzed phylogenetic relationships and genetic variability among HIV-1 strains collected in 1996 from 36 antiretroviral therapy-naive patients. Only subtype B variants were present in this sampling, based on analysis of HIV-1 envelope (env) C2V3, protease (PR), and reverse transcriptase (RT)...
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