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Genetic analysis of HIV type 1 strains from newly infected untreated patients in cyprus: high genetic diversity and low prevalence of drug resistance.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Jan 2009
Kousiappa Ioanna, van de Vijver David A M C, Demetriades Ioannis, Kostrikis Leondios G
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Abstract The molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 infection was first studied in Cyprus in the mid-1990s, but the extent of HIV-1 diversity and the prevalence of drug resistance have remained elusive. In an effort to address this issue, the present study examined HIV-1 strains isolated from 37 newly diagnosed untreated HIV-1 patients, representing 72% of the total number of newly diagnosed and drug-naive patients in...
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