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SUBMITTER: Heipertz RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4985300 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heipertz Richard A RA Ayemoba Ojor O Sanders-Buell Eric E Poltavee Kultida K Pham Phuc P Kijak Gustavo H GH Lei Esther E Bose Meera M Howell Shana S O'Sullivan Anne Marie AM Bates Adam A Cervenka Taylor T Kuroiwa Janelle J Akintunde Akindiran A Ibezim Onyekachukwu O Alabi Abraham A Okoye Obumneke O Manak Mark M Malia Jennifer J Peel Sheila S Maisaka Mohammed M Singer Darrell D O'Connell Robert J RJ Robb Merlin L ML Kim Jerome H JH Michael Nelson L NL Njoku Ogbonnaya O Tovanabutra Sodsai S
Medicine 20160801 32
While abundant sequence information is available from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) subtypes A, B, C and CRF01_AE for HIV-1 vaccine design, sequences from West Africa are less represented. We sought to augment our understanding of HIV-1 variants circulating in 6 Nigerian cities as a step to subsequent HIV-1 vaccine development.The G/CRF02_AG multi-region hybridization assay (MHA) was developed to differentiate subtype G, CRF02_AG and their recombinants from other subtypes based on ...[more]