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HIV molecular epidemiology: transmission and adaptation to human populations.
Current opinion in HIV and AIDS - 1 Jul 2009
Woodman Zenda, Williamson Carolyn
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To provide an update on the origin of the HIV epidemic and insights into how the immune response is shaping virus evolution. RECENT FINDINGS: Characterization of archival samples showed that by the 1960s, HIV had already diverged within humans. It is now estimated that HIV has been in humans since at least the early 1900s. However, despite the potential for different divergent viruses to...
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