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Isolation and biological characterization of non-B HIV type 1 from Kenya.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Jul 2012
Muriuki Joseph K, Ngeranwa Joseph N, Mwangi Joseph, Orinda George, Lwembe Raphael, Khamadi Samuel
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The isolation and characterization of primary strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a vital tool for assessing properties of viruses replicating in HIV-infected subjects. HIV-1 isolation was carried out from 30 HIV-1-infected patients from a Comprehensive Care Clinic (CCC) after informed consent. Virus was successfully isolated from 9 out of the 30 samples investigated. Seven of the isolates were from...
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