Isolation and antigenic characterization of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Brazil |
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| Authors: | B Galv?o-Castro J Ivo-Dos-Santos J C Couto-Fernandez V Bongertz D Chequer-Bou-Habib F S Sion O M Barth H Pereira M S Pereira |
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| Affiliation: | Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. |
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| Abstract: | A retrovirus infecting a Brazilian AIDS patient was isolated and characterized in terms of its reactivity with sera from individuals infected with human immunodeficiency viruses 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2). The Western blot analysis revealed that the Brazilian isolate is very similar to the well characterized HIV-1 strain. The serum of the patient from whom the virus was isolated did not react with the 140 kDa envelope glycoprotein specific for HIV-2. |
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