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SUBMITTER: Nazziwa J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7044301 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nazziwa Jamirah J Faria Nuno Rodrigues NR Faria Nuno Rodrigues NR Chaplin Beth B Rawizza Holly H Kanki Phyllis P Dakum Patrick P Abimiku Alash'le A Charurat Man M Ndembi Nicaise N Esbjörnsson Joakim J Esbjörnsson Joakim J
Scientific reports 20200226 1
Nigeria has the highest number of AIDS-related deaths in the world. In this study, we characterised the HIV-1 molecular epidemiology by analysing 1442 HIV-1 pol sequences collected 1999-2014 from four geopolitical zones in Nigeria using state-of-the-art maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses. The main circulating forms were the circulating recombinant form (CRF) 02_AG (44% of the analysed sequences), CRF43_02G (16%), and subtype G (8%). Twenty-three percent of the sequences repres ...[more]