Article
Recovery of virtually full-length HIV-1 provirus of diverse subtypes from primary virus cultures using the polymerase chain reaction.
Virology - 20 Oct 1995
Salminen M O, Koch C, Sanders-Buell E, Ehrenberg P K, Michael N L, Carr J K, Burke D S, McCutchan F E
Abstract excerpt
In the course of the global pandemic, the human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) has established at least eight distinct genotypes in the main (M), or prevalent, group of isolates, a variety of rare outlier forms, and intergenotypic recombinants of group M viruses. This genotypic diversity h...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Viral
- Electrophoresis, Agar Gel
- Genes, Viral
- Genotype
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Proviruses
- Virus Cultivation