Surveillance of HIV transmitted drug resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Avila-Rios, O Sued, SY Rhee, RW Shafer… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background HIV transmitted drug resistance (TDR) remains at moderate level in Latin
America and the Caribbean (LAC). However, different epidemiologic scenarios could …

Low-cost ultra-wide genotyping using Roche/454 pyrosequencing for surveillance of HIV drug resistance

DM Dudley, EN Chin, BN Bimber, SS Sanabani… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Great efforts have been made to increase accessibility of HIV antiretroviral
therapy (ART) in low and middle-income countries. The threat of wide-scale emergence of …

HIV-1 molecular epidemiology, transmission clusters and transmitted drug resistance mutations in central Brazil

TSO Tanaka, TF Leite, SZ Freitas, GA Cesar… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We aimed to characterize HIV-1 molecular epidemiology and transmission clusters among
heterosexual (HET) and men who have sex with men (MSM) individuals, as well as …

Ultra-deep sequencing of HIV-1 near full-length and partial proviral genomes reveals high genetic diversity among Brazilian blood donors

R Pessoa, P Loureiro, M Esther Lopes… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Here, we aimed to gain a comprehensive picture of the HIV-1 diversity in the
northeast and southeast part of Brazil. To this end, a high-throughput sequencing-by …

Deep sequencing of HIV-1 near full-length proviral genomes identifies high rates of BF1 recombinants including two novel circulating recombinant forms (CRF) …

R Pessoa, JT Watanabe, P Calabria, AC Felix… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background The findings of frequent circulation of HIV-1 subclade F1 viruses and the
scarcity of BF1 recombinant viruses based on pol subgenomic fragment sequencing among …

[HTML][HTML] Low pre-diagnosis attrition but high pre-treatment attrition among patients with MDR-TB: An operational research from Chennai, India

HD Shewade, D Nair, JS Klinton, M Parmar… - Journal of epidemiology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Worldwide, there's concern over high pre-diagnosis and pre-treatment attritions
or delays in Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) diagnosis and treatment pathway …

Broad and Cross-Clade CD4+ T-Cell Responses Elicited by a DNA Vaccine Encoding Highly Conserved and Promiscuous HIV-1 M-Group Consensus Peptides

RR Almeida, DS Rosa, SP Ribeiro, VC Santana… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
T-cell based vaccine approaches have emerged to counteract HIV-1/AIDS. Broad,
polyfunctional and cytotoxic CD4+ T-cell responses have been associated with control of …

Characterization of HIV-1 CRF90_BF1 and putative novel CRFs_BF1 in Central West, North and Northeast Brazilian regions

MNG Reis, G Bello, ML Guimaraes, MMA Stefani - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The Brazilian AIDS epidemic has been characterized by an increasing rate of BF1
recombinants and so far eight circulating recombinant forms/CRFs_BF1 have been …

Recent increased identification and transmission of HIV-1 unique recombinant forms in Sweden

U Neogi, AB Siddik, P Kalaghatgi, M Gisslén, G Bratt… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
A temporal increase in non-B subtypes has earlier been described in Sweden by us and we
hypothesized that this increased viral heterogeneity may become a hotspot for the …

Multiplexed next-generation sequencing and de novo assembly to obtain near full-length HIV-1 genome from plasma virus

SG Aralaguppe, AB Siddik, A Manickam… - Journal of virological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Analysing the HIV-1 near full-length genome (HIV-NFLG) facilitates new understanding into
the diversity of virus population dynamics at individual or population level. In this study we …