title: Divergent HIV and simian immunodeficiency virus surveillance, Zaire.
abstract: Recent HIV infection or divergent HIV or simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) strains may be responsible for Western blot-indeterminate results on 70 serum samples from Zairian hospital employees that were reactive in an enzyme immunoassay. Using universal polymerase chain reaction HIV-1, HIV-2, and SIV primers, we detected 1 (1.4%) HIV-1 sequence. Except for 1 sample, no molecular evidence for unusual HIV- or SIV-like strains in this sampling was found.
authors.affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA.
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schaefer
authors.forename: Kenneth E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.forename: Eugene Nzila
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Nzilambi
authors.forename: Michael E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: St Louis
authors.forename: Thomas C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Quinn
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Folks
authors.forename: Marcia L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Kalish
authors.forename: Danuta
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pieniazek
mesh_terms: D015023:Democratic Republic of the Congo; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015498:HIV-2 / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015302:Simian Immunodeficiency Virus / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification