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Full-length genome characterization of an HIV type 2 isolate from India.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Oct 2008
Santhosh C V, Tamhane Mayur C, Mukhopadhyaya Rita, Mukhopadhyaya Robin
Abstract excerpt
An infectious Indian human immunodeficiency virus-2 (HIV-2) subtype A isolate was completely sequenced and analyzed and its phylogenetic relatedness was investigated. The unusual limited size of the long terminal repeat (LTR) from the isolate was caused due to a truncation within the nef open reading frame (ORF) located at the U3 region of the LTR. The genetic relatedness and lineage of this HIV-2 strain were...
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