Funding Information: The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study was supported by the European funds through grant Bio-Molecular and Epidemiological Surveillance of HIV Transmitted Drug Resistance, Hepatitis Co-Infections and Ongoing Transmission Patterns in Europe (BEST HOPE) (project funded through HIVERA: Harmonizing Integr...
HIV-1 subtypes associate with differences in transmission and disease progression. Thus, the existence of geographic hotspots of subtype diversity deepens the complexity of HIV-1/AIDS control. The already high subtype diversity in Portugal seems to be increasing due to infections with sub-subtype A1 virus. We performed phylogenetic analysis of 65 A1 sequences newly obtained from 14 Portuguese hospitals and 425 ...
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This project was supported by Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT grant PIC/IC/82760/2007). RP is supported by a PhD fellowship from FCT (SFRH/BD/80884/2011). TFO was supported by an EMBO Installation Grant, and is currently supported by the DFG Center for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain, and by a Grant from Parkinson Fonds, Germany. The research leading to these results has rec...