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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 env evolves toward ancestral states upon transmission to a new host.
Journal of virology - 1 Feb 2006
Herbeck Joshua T, Nickle David C, Learn Gerald H, Gottlieb Geoffrey S, Curlin Marcel E, Heath Laura, Mullins James I
Abstract excerpt
Selecting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) sequences for inclusion within vaccines has been a difficult problem, as circulating HIV strains evolve relentlessly and become increasingly divergent over time. We report an assessment of this divergence from three perspectives: (i) across different hosts as a function of time of infection, (ii) between donors and recipients in known transmission pairs, and (iii)...
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