A nationwide effort to sistematically monitor HIV-1 diversity in Brazil: preliminary results. Brazilian Network for the HIV-1 Isolation and Characterization.
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Laboratório Avançado de Saúde Pública, Centro de Pesquisa Gonçalo Moniz-FIOCRUZ, Rua Valdemar Falcão 121, 40295-001 Salvador, BA, Brasil *Ambulatório da Providência da Arquidiocese do Rio de Janeiro, RJ **Departamento de Imunologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ ***Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG ****Laboratório de Retrovirologia, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, SP *****Laboratório de Virologia Molecular, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
دوره 91 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996