Virtues of being faithful: can we limit the genetic variation in human immunodeficiency virus?

doi:10.1007/s001090050257

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Virtues of being faithful: can we limit the genetic variation in human immunodeficiency virus?

Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Aug 1998

Drosopoulos W C, Rezende L F, Wainberg M A, Prasad V R

Abstract excerpt

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are characterized by a high degree of viral variation. The genetic variation is thought to be a combined effect of a high error rate of reverse transcriptase (RT), viral genomic recombination, the selection forces of the human immune system, the requi...

Topics

Drug Resistance, Microbial
Genetic Variation
HIV Reverse Transcriptase
HIV-1
Humans

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