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HIV diversity, recombination and disease progression: how does fitness "fit" into the puzzle?
AIDS reviews - 1 Jan 2000
Tebit Denis M, Nankya Immaculate, Arts Eric J, Gao Yong
Abstract excerpt
HIV appears to have diverged into several lineages upon multiple zoonotic introductions from the nonhuman primates. The HIV-2 and HIV-1 groups M, N, and O likely represent different cross-species transmission events. The radial evolution of group M in multiple clades or subtypes is likely due to adaptation and expansions in the human hosts. It is not well understood why HIV strains such as HIV-1 subtype C in...
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