HIV/AIDS Epidemiology
New HIV/AIDS epidemiology research has been reported by scientists at University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Published in AIDS Weekly, August 6th, 2007
New research, "Epidemiologic and evolutionary trends of HIV-1 CRF31_BC-related strains in southern Brazil," is the subject of a report. In this recently published article, scientists in Porto Alegre, Brazil conducted a study "To evaluate the impact of HIV-1 CRF31_BC in the southern Brazilian HIV epidemic. Blood plasma from 284 patients was collected from July 2002 to January 2003 at 2 reference HIV/AIDS centers in southern Brazil."
"Viral protease and reverse transcriptase (RT) genomic regions were amplified by RT polymerase chain reaction, sequenced, and subtyped. Evolutionary analyses were performed to estimate the CRF31_BC most recent common ancestor and its...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2007-08-06)
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