Techniques used to identify the Brazilian variant of HIV-1 subtype B

The purpose of the present study was to compare the sensitivity and specificity of V3 enzyme immunoassay (solid phase EIA and EIA inhibition) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) with the DNA sequencing "gold standard" to identify the Brazilian HIV-1 variants of subtype B an...

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Main Authors: S. Komninakis, L. Fukumori, R. Alcalde, M. Cortina, L. Abdala, A. Brito, S. Sanabani, A.J.S. Duarte, J. Casseb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2007-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2007000300003