| a new htlv type ii subtype a isolate in an hiv type 1-infected prostitute from cameroon, central africa. | among 332 female sex workers in douala, cameroon, 113 were hiv-1 seropositive, 3 were htlv-i seropositive, and only 1 had specific anti-htlv-ii antibodies. by cocultivation with bjab cells, an htlv-ii was isolated from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of this 32-year-old woman coinfected by hiv-1. this new african htlv-ii isolate (ph230pcam) belongs to the molecular subtype a, exhibiting, however, a nucleotide variability of 2.4% and 0.8%, vis-à-vis the mo prototype, in the ltr and in the ... | 1995 | 7492447 |
| hiv type 2 intergroup recombinant identified in cameroon. | a unique hiv-2 intergroup recombinant strain was identified in cameroon. the virus, cm-03-510-03, was amplified from blood collected from a 47-year-old female patient in douala, cameroon in 2003 who was seroreactive for hiv-2. a near full-length genome 9089 nucleotides in length was amplified from proviral dna. the genome for cm-03-510-03 is composed of segments of hiv-2 groups a and b with four recombination break-points and has open reading frames for all the structural and regulatory genes. a ... | 2008 | 18275352 |