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Long-term intrapatient viral evolution during HIV-2 infection.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2007
MacNeil Adam, Sankale Jean-Louis, Meloni Seema Thakore, Sarr Abdoulaye Dieng, Mboup Souleymane, Kanki Phyllis
Abstract excerpt
Background. Disease progression and transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 2 are attenuated, compared with HIV-1, which is consistent with the lower plasma viral loads observed in HIV-2 infection. Although numerous studies have characterized the intrapatient evolution of viral sequences during HIV-1 infection, prospective studies examining intrapatient evolution during HIV-2 infection have been...
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