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Molecular investigation of human immunodeficiency virus type 2 subtype a cases in South Korea.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 2006
Nam Jeong-Gu, Kim Gab Jung, Baek Jin Young, Suh Soon Duck, Kee Mee Kyung, Lee Joo-Shil, Kim Sung Soon
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the molecular characteristics of human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) subtype A isolates to clarify the transmission mode of HIV-2 within Korea. These findings indicated that the viruses from the six patients infected within Korea formed a distinct subcluster in the phylogenetic tree and might have been transmitted from one source.
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