| Literature DB >> 22997423 |
Kim Tien Ng1, Lai Yee Ong, Yutaka Takebe, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Kok Keng Tee.
Abstract
We report here the first novel HIV-1 circulating recombinant form (CRF) 54_01B (CRF54_01B) isolated from three epidemiologically unlinked subjects of different risk groups in Malaysia. These recently sampled recombinants showed a complex genome organization composed of parental subtype B' and CRF01_AE, with identical recombination breakpoints observed in the gag, pol, and vif genes. Such a discovery highlights the ongoing active generation and spread of intersubtype recombinants involving the subtype B' and CRF01_AE lineages and indicates the potential of the new CRF in bridging HIV-1 transmission among different risk groups in Southeast Asia.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22997423 PMCID: PMC3457179 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01949-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103