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New Genomes from the Congo Basin Expand History of CRF01_AE Origin and Dissemination.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Jul 2020
Junqueira Dennis Maletich, Wilkinson Eduan, Vallari Ana, Deng Xianding, Achari Asmeeta, Yu Guixia, McArthur Carole, Kaptue Lazare, Mbanya Dora, Chiu Charles, Cloherty Gavin A, de Oliveira Tulio, Rodgers Mary A
Abstract excerpt
Although the first HIV circulating recombinant form (CRF01_AE) is the predominant strain in many Asian countries, it is uncommonly found in the Congo Basin from where it first originated. To fill the gap in the evolutionary history of this important strain, we sequenced near complete genomes from HIV samples with subgenomic CRF01_AE regions collected in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001...
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