Published in AIDS Weekly, September 21st, 2009
"It is closely related to gorilla simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVgor) and shows no evidence of recombination with other HIV-1 lineages," wrote J.C. Plantier and colleagues, University of Rouen.
The researchers concluded: "This new virus seems to be the prototype of a new HIV-1 lineage that is distinct from HIV-1 groups M, N and O. We propose to designate it HIV-1 group'."
Plantier and colleagues published their study in Nature Medicine (A new human immunodeficiency virus derived...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-09-21)
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