Divergent HIV and Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Surveillance, Zaire

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Schaefer, Amanda ; Robbins, Kenneth E. ; Nzilambi, Eugene Nzila ; St. Louis, Michael E. ; Quinn, Thomas C. ; Folks, Thomas M. ; Kalish, Marcia L. ; Pieniazek, Danuta
• Description:
  Recent HIV infection or divergent HIV or simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) strains may be responsible for Western blot-indeterminate results on 70 serum samples from Zairian hospital employees that were reactive in an enzyme immunoassay. Using universal polymerase chain reaction HIV-1, HIV-2, and SIV primers, we detected 1 (1.4%) HIV-1 sequence. Except for 1 sample, no molecular evidence for unusual HIV- or SIV-like strains in this sampling was found.
• Subjects:
  Dispatch Humans Immunoenzyme Techniques Personnel, Hospital Population Surveillance Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Simian Immunodeficiency Virus
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 11(9):1446-1448.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Location:
  Africa
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d6c6a5d21fa6a4fd917d29b7bc68deb2e5bb41fe5fd0ba530ebd5abe264c02c1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/7870/cdc_7870_DS1.pdf
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