Significantly Longer Envelope V2 Loops Are Characteristic of Heterosexually Transmitted Subtype B HIV-1 in Trinidad

In Trinidad and the wider Caribbean, subtype B Human Immunodeficiency Virus-type 1 (HIV-1B) overwhelmingly accounts for HIV infection among heterosexuals; this contrasts with the association of HIV-1B with homosexual transmission and injecting drug use globally. The HIV envelope contains genetic det...

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Published in:	PloS one 2011-06, Vol.6 (6), p.e19995
Main Authors:	Collins-Fairclough, Aneisha M., Charurat, Manhattan, Nadai, Yuka, Pando, Maria, Avila, Maria M., Blattner, William A., Carr, Jean K.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIDS Amino Acid Sequence Amino acids Asparagine Biology Chronic infection Clonal deletion Cloning Cohort Studies Deoxyribonucleic acid Disease transmission DNA Epidemics Genomes Glycosylation Health aspects HIV HIV infections HIV Infections - epidemiology HIV Infections - transmission HIV Infections - virology HIV-1 - chemistry HIV-1 - classification HIV-1 - isolation & purification Homosexuality Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Infection Infections Medicine Molecular Sequence Data Phylogenetics Phylogeny Risk Factors Sequence Homology, Amino Acid Seroconversion Sexual Behavior Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral - epidemiology Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral - transmission Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral - virology Strains (organisms) Threonine Trinidad and Tobago - epidemiology Tropism Vaccines Viral Envelope Proteins - chemistry Virology Viruses
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