Differences in acute retroviral syndrome by HIV-1 subtype in a multicentre cohort study in Africa

Eduard J Sanders1, Matthew A Price, Etienne Karita

  • 1aCentre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Kilifi, Kenya bUniversity of Oxford, Headington, UK cInternational AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York City, New York dDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA eProject San Francisco, Kigali, Rwanda fUganda Research Unit on AIDS, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda gZambia Emory Research Project, Lusaka, Zambia hDesmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa iKenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Nairobi, Kenya jDepartment of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

AIDS (London, England)
|October 14, 2017
PubMed
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