Genetic Characterization of HIV-1 Subtype D Near-Full-Length Proviral Genomes by Illumina Massively Parallel Sequencing Technology

Rodrigo Pessôa; Maria Esther Lopes; Sabri S Sanabani

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00586-14

Genetic Characterization of HIV-1 Subtype D Near-Full-Length Proviral Genomes by Illumina Massively Parallel Sequencing Technology

Genome Announc. 2014 Jun 12;2(3):e00586-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00586-14.

Authors

Rodrigo Pessôa¹, Maria Esther Lopes², Sabri S Sanabani³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Virology, São Paulo Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Hemorio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³ Department of Pathology, LIM 03, Hospital das Clínicas (HC), School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil sabyem_63@yahoo.com.

Abstract

This study describes the near-full-length genome deep sequencing of two HIV-1 subtype D strains identified in blood donors in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in what seems to have been a small restricted subtype D epidemic in the country.