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New strain of HIV appears in Cameroon

A new, rare strain of human immunodeficiency virus has been identified in Cameroon, but current screening tests may not pick it up.

 

References:

Simon, F., et al. 1998. Identification of a new human immunodeficiency virus type 1 distinct from group M and group O. Nature Medicine 4(September):1032.

Wain-Hobson, S. 1998. More ado about HIV’s origins. Nature Medicine 4(September):1001.

 

Further Readings:

Gürtler, L.G., et al. 1994. A new subtype of Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (MVP-5180) from Cameroon. Journal of Virology 68:1581.

Maucière, P., et al. 1997. Serological and virological characterization of HIV-1 group O infection in Cameroon. AIDS 11:445.

McCutchan, et al. 1996. HIV-1 genetic diversity. AIDS 10:513.

Sharp, P.M., et al. Origins and diversity of human immunodeficiency viruses. AIDS 8:527.

Wain-Hobson, S. 1998. 1959 and all that. Nature 391(Feb. 5):831.

Zhu, T., et al. 1998. An African HIV-1 sequence from 1959 and implications for the origin of the epidemic. Nature 391(Feb. 5):594.

 

Sources:

Anthony S. Fauci
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-2520

Francine E. McCutchan
Henry M. Jackson Foundation
1 Taft Court
Rockville, MD 20850

Francois Simon
Hôpital Bichat
Laboratoire de Virologie
Paris, France

Simon Wain-Hobson
Institut Pasteur
Unite de Retrovirologie Moleculaire
75724 Paris Cedex 15
France

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