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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 has been documented, for the most part, by sequencing of subgenomic segments of the provirus. Using DNA from virus...
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