1. Divergent HIV and Simian Virus Surveillance, Zaire.
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Schaefer, Amanda, Robbins, Kenneth E., Nzilambi, Eugene Nzila, St. Louis, Michael E., Quinn, Thomas C., Folks, Thomas M., Kalish, Marcia L., and Pieniazek, Danuta
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HIV infections ,SIMIAN viruses ,WESTERN immunoblotting ,ENZYME-linked immunosorbent assay - Abstract
Recent HIV infection or divergent HIV or simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) strains may be responsible for Western blot-indeterminate results on 70 serum samples from Zairian hospital employees that were reactive in an enzyme immunoassay. Using universal polymerase chain reaction HIV-1, HIV-2, and SIV primers, we detected 1 (1.4%) HIV-1 sequence. Except for 1 sample, no molecular evidence for unusual HIV- or SIV-like strains in this sampling was found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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