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HIV-1 molecular epidemiology in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa: origin, demography and migrations.
PloS one - 18 Feb 2011
Esbjörnsson Joakim, Mild Mattias, Månsson Fredrik, Norrgren Hans, Medstrand Patrik
Abstract excerpt
The HIV-1 epidemic in West Africa has been dominated by subtype A and the recombinant form CRF02_AG. Little is known about the origins and the evolutionary history of HIV-1 in this region. We employed Maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods in combination with temporal and spatial information to reconstruct the HIV-1 subtype distribution, demographic history and migration patterns over time in Guinea-Bissau, West...
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