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Clinical significance of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication fitness.
Clinical microbiology reviews - 1 Oct 2007
Dykes Carrie, Demeter Lisa M
Abstract excerpt
The relative fitness of a variant, according to population genetics theory, is that variant's relative contribution to successive generations. Most drug-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) variants have reduced replication fitness, but at least some of these deficits can be compensated for by the accumulation of second-site mutations. HIV-1 replication fitness also appears to influence the...
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