Molecular Diversity of HIV-1 among People Who Inject Drugs in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Massive Expansion of Circulating Recombinant Form (CRF) 33_01B and Emergence of Multiple Unique Recombinant Clusters

Wei Zhen Chow; Lai Yee Ong; Siti Humaira Razak; Yeat Mei Lee; Kim Tien Ng; Yean Kong Yong; Azureen Azmel; Yutaka Takebe; Haider Abdulrazzaq Abed Al-Darraji; Adeeba Kamarulzaman; Kok Keng Tee

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062560

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Molecular Diversity of HIV-1 among People Who Inject Drugs in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Massive Expansion of Circulating Recombinant Form (CRF) 33_01B and Emergence of Multiple Unique Recombinant Clusters

Wei Zhen Chow,

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Lai Yee Ong ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lai Yee Ong, Siti Humaira Razak, Yeat Mei Lee

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Siti Humaira Razak ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lai Yee Ong, Siti Humaira Razak, Yeat Mei Lee

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Yeat Mei Lee ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Lai Yee Ong, Siti Humaira Razak, Yeat Mei Lee

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Kim Tien Ng,

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Yean Kong Yong,

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Azureen Azmel,

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Yutaka Takebe,

Affiliations Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Haider Abdulrazzaq Abed Al-Darraji,

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Adeeba Kamarulzaman,

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Kok Keng Tee

* E-mail: k2tee@um.edu.my

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Molecular Diversity of HIV-1 among People Who Inject Drugs in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Massive Expansion of Circulating Recombinant Form (CRF) 33_01B and Emergence of Multiple Unique Recombinant Clusters

Wei Zhen Chow,
Lai Yee Ong,
Siti Humaira Razak,
Yeat Mei Lee,
Kim Tien Ng,
Yean Kong Yong,
Azureen Azmel,
Yutaka Takebe,
Haider Abdulrazzaq Abed Al-Darraji,
Adeeba Kamarulzaman

Published: May 7, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062560

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