THE HONDURAN HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS TYPE-1 (HIV-1) EPIDEMIC IS DOMINATED BY HIV-1 SUBTYPE-B AS DETERMINED BY V3 DOMAIN SEROTYPING ANDGENOTYPING

Authors
LARA C SALLBERG M JOHANSSON B DERIVERA IL SONNERBORG A
Citation
C. Lara et al., THE HONDURAN HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS TYPE-1 (HIV-1) EPIDEMIC IS DOMINATED BY HIV-1 SUBTYPE-B AS DETERMINED BY V3 DOMAIN SEROTYPING ANDGENOTYPING, Journal of clinical microbiology, 35(3), 1997, pp. 783-784
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of clinical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00951137
Volume
35
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
783 - 784
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(1997)35:3<783:THHT(E>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
The distribution of subtypes A through E of human immunodeficiency vir us type 1 (HIV-1) in Honduras was analyzed in 120 HIV-1 positive serum samples by V3 peptide serotyping and HIV-1 cDNA sequencing. In the Ho nduran HIV-I epidemic, subtype B was detected in 98 of 99 subtyped sam ples.