Article
HIV type 1 diversity and the reliability of the heteroduplex mobility assay.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Jul 1998
Loussert-Ajaka I, Menu E, Apetrei C, Peeters M, Damond F, Mauclère P, Eberle J, Brengues C, Saragosti S, Barré-Sinoussi F, Brun-Vézinet F, Simon F
Abstract excerpt
We investigated HIV-1 diversity by means of heteroduplex mobility assay (HMA) genotyping. We studied 199 samples from patients originating from 26 countries and living in France. The HMA successfully genotyped 182 (91%) of these samples, as follows: 77 (42%) subtype A, 57 (31%) subtype B, 5 (3%)...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- HIV Infections
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes
- Phylogeny
- Quality Control
- Reproducibility of Results
- Sequence Analysis
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid