title: Novel HIV-1 Recombinant Identified in a Foreign Heterosexual Resident in Japan: Relatedness to Recently Reported CRF69_01B, Detected Primarily among Japanese Men Who Have Sex with Men.
abstract: We report here an HIV-1 recombinant composed of CRF01_AE and subtype B, with a total of eight recombination breakpoints in the gag-pol and vpr-tat regions. This recombinant was identified from a Myanmarese heterosexual male in Japan and showed the chimera structure identical to recently reported CRF69_01B, detected primarily among men who have sex with men in Japan.
authors.affiliation: AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kusagawa
authors.affiliation: AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yokota
authors.affiliation: Negishi Clinic, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Masayoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Negishi
authors.affiliation: Division of Microbiology, Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Makiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.affiliation: AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Tetsuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matano
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.affiliation: AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan takebe@nih.go.jp.
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takebe