Evidence of at least two introductions of HIV-1 in the Amerindian Warao population from Venezuela

Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas. Centro de Microbiología y Biología Celular. Laboratorio de Virología Molecular. Caracas, Venezuela.
Universidad Central de Venezuela. Instituto de Biomedicina. Laboratorio de Tuberculosis. Caracas, Venezuela.
Universidad Central de Venezuela. Instituto de Biomedicina. Laboratorio de Tuberculosis. Caracas, Venezuela.
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas. Centro de Microbiología y Biología Celular. Laboratorio de Virología Molecular. Caracas, Venezuela.
Universidad Central de Venezuela. Instituto de Biomedicina. Laboratorio de Tuberculosis. Caracas, Venezuela.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de AIDS e Imunologia Molecular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas. Centro de Microbiología y Biología Celular. Laboratorio de Virología Molecular. Caracas, Venezuela.

Abstract

The Venezuelan Amerindians were, until recently, free of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. However, in 2007, HIV-1 infection was detected for the first time in the Warao Amerindian population living in the Eastern part of Venezuela, in the delta of the Orinoco river. The aim of this study was to analyze the genetic diversity of the HIV-1 circulating in this population.

Keywords in Portuguese

HIV-1
Venezuela
População Ameríndia Warao
Infecção por HIV

Keywords

HIV-1
Amerindian Warao Population
Venezuela
HIV INfection

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Public Library of Science

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RANGEL, Héctor R. et al. Evidence of at Least Two Introductions of HIV-1 in the Amerindian Warao Population from Venezuela. Plos One, v.7, n.7, e40626, 7p, July 2012.

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10.1371/journal.pone.0040626

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1932-6203

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