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Phylogeographic reconstruction of HIV type 1B in Montenegro and the Balkan region.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Oct 2012
Ciccozzi Massimo, Lai Alessia, Ebranati Erika, Gabanelli Elena, Galli Massimo, Mugosa Boban, Vratnica Zoran, Vujoševic Danijela, Lauševic Dragan, Ciotti Marco, Cella Eleonora, Lo Presti Alessandra, Zehender Gianguglielmo
Abstract excerpt
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the most genetically variable human viruses as it is characterized by high rates of mutation, viral replication, and recombination. Phylodynamics is a powerful means of describing the behavior of an infection as a combination of evolutionary and ecological processes. Only a few studies of HIV-1 molecular epidemiology have so far been carried out in the Balkans. In this...
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