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Iram Fatima Khan1, Madhu Vajpayee, V V S P Prasad
1Department of Microbiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, 110029, India.
Abstract:
Considering the severity of the HIV-1 subtype C epidemic, data on the epidemiology and distribution of HIV subtypes in India are relatively sparse. Keeping this in view, 28 env gene sequences from patients were sequenced and analyzed. The samples were collected over a period of 10 years from 1995 to 2004. Assessment of the interisolate genetic distances of the study isolates, which were all subtype C, showed interisolate distances varying from 2 to 19% (mean: 14%) with the maximum diversity observed in the samples collected in 2003-2004. Analysis of the phylogenetic relationships among subtype C env sequences from six different countries and our study isolates revealed an overall star-like phylogeny with almost all sequences from India forming a monophyletic lineage. A lower diversity within the immunodominant epitopes was found. The data generated from this study should prove valuable for the production of vaccine against subtype C.
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