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Southern Brazil HIV type 1 C expansion into the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Mar 2011
Brígido L F M, Ferreira J L P, Almeida V C, Rocha S Q, Ragazzo T G, Estevam D L, Rodrigues R
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Abstract HIV diversity reflects multifactorial evolutionary forces, but monitoring subtype prevalence may provide clues to understanding the epidemic. In the Americas HIV-1 C is present at significant levels only in the southern states of Brazil. We describe in this study the presence of the HIV-1 C pol genome in 11.6% (95 CI 6-21%) of antiretroviral-naive individuals from São Paulo, the major city of South...
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