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Diversity of HIV-1 RNA and DNA in breast milk from HIV-1-infected mothers.
Virology - 5 Jul 2007
Becquart Pierre, Courgnaud Valerie, Willumsen Juana, Van de Perre Philippe
Abstract excerpt
We compared human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) RNA and DNA populations in the different fractions of breast milk (lactoserum, lipid layer, cell pellet) and between right and left breasts in four HIV-1-infected mothers by analyzing the hypervariable env C2-V5 region. Phylogenetic analyses of the viral quasispecies revealed that RNA populations and DNA populations were clearly distinct and that viral RNA...
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