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HIV type 1 genetic variability in central Brazil.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Dec 2007
Véras Nazle M C, Véras Verônica S, Ramalho Eduardo D, Kyaw Cynthia, Silva Ruiter R, Brígido Marcelo M, Martins Cláudia R F
Abstract excerpt
This study analyzed the genes pol and env to determine the genetic variability of HIV-1 in Central Brazil. Forty-one isolates of HIV-1-infected individuals had protease, reverse transcriptase, and C2C3/ env amplified by nested PCR and sequenced. The subtype was determined by the program REGA and phylogenetic analyses. The samples identified as putative recombinant forms were analyzed by SimPlot. A high prevalence...
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