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Potential overestimation of HIV-1 sub-subtype F1 circulation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 11 Jun 2018
Marques Bianca Cristina Leires, Morgado Mariza Gonçalves, Guimarães Monick Lindenmeyer
Abstract excerpt
In Brazil, detection of the HIV-1 sub-subtype F1 has decreased with a simultaneous increase in detection of the recombinant FB and FC forms. In previous HIV-1 env molecular epidemiology studies in Rio de Janeiro, 11.4% of the detected sequences were of the F1 sub-subtype. With the goal of re-estimating the prevalence of the HIV-1 F1 sub-subtype, we performed extended analyses of these samples by examining five...
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