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Identification of a new HIV Type 1 circulating recombinant form (CRF38_BF1) in Uruguay.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Mar 2009
Ruchansky Dora, Casado Concepción, Russi José C, Arbiza Juan R, Lopez-Galindez Cecilio
Abstract excerpt
Recombination has been shown to be an important force in HIV-1 evolution. Recombination contributes to an increase in genetic variation and hinders vaccine design efforts. Several molecular epidemiology studies in South America described the circulation of subtypes B, F, and C as well as several B/F1 recombinants. This study performed by nucleotide sequencing in at least two genes of 89 samples from Uruguay has...
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