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SUBMITTER: Sturmer M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2854364 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Medical microbiology and immunology 20100309 2
A transmission cluster of HIV-1 M:B was identified in 11 patients with a median age of 52 (range 26-65) in North-East Germany by C2V4 region sequencing of the env gene of HIV-1, who-except of one-were not aware of any risky behaviour. The 10 male and 1 female patients deteriorated immunologically, according to their information made available, within 4 years after a putative HIV acquisition. Nucleic acid sequence analysis showed a R5 virus in all patients and in 7 of 11 a crown motif of the V3 l ...[more]