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Identification of unique B/C recombinant strains of HIV-1 in the southern state of Karnataka, India.
AIDS
; 19(13): 1426-9, 2005 Sep 02.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16103776
RESUMO
We characterized the molecular nature of a large number of primary HIV-1 isolates in the four southern states of India. In addition to confirming a predominance of subtype C infection, for the first time we identified three B/C recombinant viruses in a subset of 115 samples. Unexpectedly, env sequences of two of the three B/C recombinants phylogenetically clustered with subtype B strains of the USA. The determination of the real incidence of the recombinant viruses is of importance.