Molecular diversity of HIV-1 among people who inject drugs in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: massive expansion of circulating recombinant form (CRF) 33_01B and emergence of multiple unique recombinant clusters.

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Published in PLoS One on May 07, 2013

Authors

Wei Zhen Chow1, Lai Yee Ong, Siti Humaira Razak, Yeat Mei Lee, Kim Tien Ng, Yean Kong Yong, Azureen Azmel, Yutaka Takebe, Haider Abdulrazzaq Abed Al-Darraji, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Kok Keng Tee

Author Affiliations

1: Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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