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HIV type 1 subtype C and CB Pol recombinants prevail at the cities with the highest AIDS prevalence rate in Brazil.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Dec 2007
Brígido Luis F M, Nunes Cynara C, Oliveira Cristina M, Knoll Rosalie K, Ferreira João Leandro P, Freitas Carmem A, Alves Maria A, Dias Claudia, Rodrigues Rosangela
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 B is predominant in Brazil, but HIV-1 C has increasingly been reported in the south of the country. However, many samples clustering with clade C are actually a recombinant, with a small B segment at RT (CRF31). Samples (209) from the three cities with the highest aids prevalence rate are analyzed. Partial polymerase sequences from HIV RNA made it possible to determine HIV clades and recombination patterns...
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