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Transmission of human immunodeficiency type 1 viruses with intersubtype recombinant long terminal repeat sequences.
Virology - 15 Feb 1999
Blackard J T, Renjifo B R, Mwakagile D, Montano M A, Fawzi W W, Essex M
Abstract excerpt
Retroviruses such as human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) contain two RNA strands per virion, and recombination can occur frequently during reverse transcription. Recombination may occur between HIV-1 genomes of the same subtype or among genomes of two or more distinct subtypes present in an individual. In the current study, we found that recombinatorial events were not limited to viral structural genes...
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