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Evolutionary gamut of in vivo Gag substitutions during early HIV-1 subtype C infection.
Virology - 20 Dec 2011
Novitsky Vladimir, Wang Rui, Baca Jeannie, Margolin Lauren, McLane Mary F, Moyo Sikhulile, van Widenfelt Erik, Makhema Joseph, Essex M
Abstract excerpt
Two analyses of HIV-1 subtype C Gag quasispecies were performed in a prospective cohort of 42 acutely and recently infected individuals by SGA on viral RNA/proviral DNA templates. First, in vivo Gag substitutions were assessed in relation to the HIV-1C consensus sequence, which revealed that 29.3% of detected amino acid substitutions can be classified as reversions to subtype consensus, 61.3% as forward...
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