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Short communication: Evidences of recent decline in the expansion rate of the HIV type 1 subtype C and CRF31_BC epidemics in southern Brazil.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Nov 2009
Bello Gonzalo, Guimarães Monick L, Passaes Caroline P B, Matos Almeida Sabrina E, Veloso Valdilea G, Morgado Mariza G
Abstract excerpt
The HIV-1 epidemic in southern Brazil is characterized by the high prevalence of subtype C and CRF31_BC infections but little is known about the population dynamics of these strains over time. We used a total of 82 env and 72 pol HIV-1 subtype C sequences collected from 1991 to 2006 and 47 pol CRF31_BC sequences collected from 1998 to 2006 from Brazilian patients to reconstruct the demographic history of these...
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