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HIV-1 Group O Genotypes and Phenotypes: Relationship to Fitness and Susceptibility to Antiretroviral Drugs.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Jul 2016
Tebit Denis M, Patel Hamish, Ratcliff Annette, Alessandri Elodie, Liu Joseph, Carpenter Crystal, Plantier Jean-Christophe, Arts Eric J
Abstract excerpt
Despite only 30,000 group O HIV-1 infections, a similar genetic diversity is observed among the O subgroups H (head) and T (tail) (previously described as subtypes A, B) as in the 9 group M subtypes (A-K). Group O isolates bearing a cysteine at reverse transcriptase (RT) position 181, predominantly the H strains are intrinsically resistant to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs). However,...
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