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HIV-1 group O infection in Cameroon, 1986-1998 [Ayouba A, et al. Emerg Infect Dis 2001;7:466] The authors studied the distribution of M versus O strains of HIV-1 in 7,544 samples from the Pasteur Center, which is the reference laboratory for HIV confirmation in Cameroon. This analysis showed that 258 strains (3.4%) were group O, and 96.6% were group M. The authors point out that the first well documented case of HIV infection in the world was a patient infected in 1966 with group O virus, so its inability to sustain an important role in the AIDS epidemic is striking.
posted 7/12/2001





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