New microbes and new infections
A case of infection with a candidate new subtype, tentatively termed M, of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 of group M
Par Colson P, Boschi C, Bedotto M et 7 autres.
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Résumé
Background
HIV-1 emergence is estimated to have occurred c.a. 1920s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Only its group M is pandemic. It currently comprises 10 established subtypes. Here, we describe a near-complete HIV-1 genome that meets the definition of a candidate new subtype.