title: Genetic analysis of HIV type 2 from Ghana and Guinea-Bissau, West Africa.
abstract: The phylogenetic variability of part of the long terminal repeat (LTR) region of HIV-2 strains isolated in 1995 from five individuals residing in Bissau, the capital city of Guinea-Bissau, and collected from seven persons from Kumasi, Ghana in 1996-1997, was analyzed. All Guinean samples and all but one Ghanaian sample clustered with HIV-2 subtype A. One Ghanaian sample (14%) was classified as HIV-2 subtype B. This study adds to previous reports on HIV-2 subtype distribution in West Africa indicating local prevalence of HIV-2 subtype B in Ivory Coast and neighboring Ghana.
authors.affiliation: AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan. kishikaw@nih.go.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Janssens
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Banor
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shinno
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Piedade
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sata
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Ampofo
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Brandful
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koyanagi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Canas-Ferreira
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Adu-Sarkodie
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kurata
mesh_terms: D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D005869:Ghana / Q000453:epidemiology; D006169:Guinea-Bissau / Q000453:epidemiology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D016325:HIV Long Terminal Repeat / Q000235:genetics*; D015498:HIV-2 / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral