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SUBMITTER: Gounder K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5439455 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gounder Kamini K Oyaro Micah M Padayachi Nagavelli N Zulu Thando Mbali TM de Oliveira Tulio T Wylie John J Ndung'u Thumbi T
AIDS research and human retroviruses 20170301 5
Drug users are increasingly recognized as a key population driving human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) spread in sub-Saharan Africa. To determine HIV-1 subtypes circulating in this population group and explore possible geographic differences, we analyzed HIV-1 sequences among drug users from Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu in Kenya. We sequenced gag and env from 55 drug users. Subtype analysis from 220 gag clonal sequences from 54 of 55 participants (median = 4/participant) showed that 44.4% were A, ...[more]