Discovery of HIV in Nepalese patient with Fever of Unknown Origin
A patient with fever of unknown origin presented to the referral infectious disease hospital of Nepal. Metagenomic sequencing of patient serum recovered a near complete HIV-1 genome. This virus was distinct from the previous 444 HIV-1 genomes from Nepal in Genbank and showed shared 92.51% nucleotide identity with HIV 1 subtype C isolate of India (AF067158.1).