HIV/AIDS Co-Infection
Studies from International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research have provided new information about HIV/AIDS co-infection
Published in Genetics and Environmental Health Week, August 20th, 2008
A new study, 'Molecular evidence for polyphyletic origin of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype C in Bangladesh,' is now available. According to a study from Dhaka, Bangladesh, "HIV-1 positive blood samples were collected between 1999 and 2005 from population groups most at risk of HIV infection in Bangladesh through the national surveillance, from clients of the Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Unit for HIV at ICDDR,B and a survey of HIV in patients with tuberculosis. Partial sequences of the gag gene were used for subtyping the HIV strains by nested PCR using selective primers."
"Of the 198 HIV strains tested, subtype C (41.4%) was the commonest strain...
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