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SUBMITTER: Akouamba BS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3320510 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Akouamba Bertine S BS Viel Janique J Charest Hugues H Merindol Natacha N Samson Johanne J Lapointe Normand N Brenner Bluma G BG Lalonde Richard R Harrigan P Richard PR Boucher Marc M Soudeyns Hugo H
Emerging infectious diseases 20050801 8
We studied HIV genetic diversity in a cohort of 127 pregnant, HIV-infected women who received prenatal care at Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal, Canada, between 1999 and 2003. Clade assignments were derived by phylogenetic analysis of amplified pol sequences. Genotyping was successful in 103 of 127 women, 59 (57.3%) of whom were infected with clade B HIV-1, and 44 (42.7%) with nonclade B viruses, including subtypes A, C, D, F, G, and H. Four sequences remained unassigned. Forty-three of 44 wo ...[more]