Serological and molecular typing of HIV type 1 infection in the Tiriyo tribe, a native Indian community of the Amazon region of Brazil.
The seroprevalence and the occurrence of an HIV-1 subtype was assessed in blood samples of the Tiriyo tribe. Antibody was found in 0.6% and the molecular analysis of the pro region detected the emergence of a subtype B for the first time in a native Indian tribe of the Amazon region of Brazil.
Machado
Luiz F A
LF
Laboratório de Virologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Vallinoto
Antonio C R
AC
Souza
Maria I M
MI
Azevedo
Vania N
VN
Ishak
Marluisa O G
MO
Ishak
Ricardo
R
D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000235:genetics; D015528:HIV Seroprevalence; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D007199:Indians, South American; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data