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. 2008 Mar 18;5(3):e69.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050069.

Inferring HIV transmission dynamics from phylogenetic sequence relationships

Christopher D Pilcher  1 , Joseph K Wong, Satish K Pillai
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Inferring HIV transmission dynamics from phylogenetic sequence relationships

Christopher D Pilcher et al. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

New insights into HIV transmission dynamics, say the authors, are likely to come from analyzing the viral sequence information that is being routinely collected during HIV genotyping.

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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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