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Evidence for preferential genotyping of a minority human immunodeficiency virus population due to primer-template mismatching during PCR-based amplification.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2005
Martinez-Picado Javier, Morales-Lopetegi Kristina, Villena Cristina, Gutiérrez Carolina, Izquierdo Nuria, Marfil Silvia, Clotet Bonaventura, Ruiz Lidia
Abstract excerpt
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) genotyping assays have come to be widely used for monitoring antiretroviral drug resistance. We report a case in which primer-template mismatches during nested PCR-based amplification biased the composition of the original viral population in the sample, magnifying a distinct minority HIV-1 population. This observation might help to explain some unexpected HIV-1 genotypes.
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