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Genetic heterogeneity of the V3 region of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein in Brazil

DOI

93

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0

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1993

Year

Karen E. Potts, Marcia L. Kalish, Timothy J. Lott, GREGG M. ORLOFF, Chi‐Cheng Luo, Marie-Antoinette Bernard, Carlos Brites Alves, Roberto Badaró, Jamal Suleiman, Orlando Ferreira,
AIDS

Abstract

The majority of the Brazilian specimens examined are more genetically related to North American and Haitian HIV-1 isolates than to African isolates. This finding and the presence of a GWGR V3 loop motif in some Brazilian isolates may be important for vaccine development.