Pre-treatment drug resistance and HIV-1 genetic diversity in the rural and urban settings of Northwest-Cameroon

• Joseph Fokam ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: josephfokam@gmail.com

  Affiliations Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for research on HIV/AIDS prevention and management, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon, National HIV Drug Resistance Prevention and Surveillance Working Group, Ministry of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1501-2763

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• Desire Takou,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for research on HIV/AIDS prevention and management, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Georges Teto,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for research on HIV/AIDS prevention and management, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Shu E. Nforbih,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Department of Community Health and Primary Care, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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• Odine P. Kome,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Maria M. Santoro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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• Ezechiel S. Ngoufack,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for research on HIV/AIDS prevention and management, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Mbuh Eyongetah,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Day Care Center, Bamenda Regional Hospital, Bamenda, Cameroon

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• Denis Palmer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Care and Treatment Centre, Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Mbingo, Cameroon

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• Estella T. Fokunang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Charles N. Fokunang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Vittorio Colizzi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for research on HIV/AIDS prevention and management, Yaoundé, Cameroon, UNESCO Chair of Multidisciplinary Biotechnology and Eurobiopark (Onlus), Rome, Italy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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• Carlo-Federico Perno,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for research on HIV/AIDS prevention and management, Yaoundé, Cameroon, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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• Alexis Ndjolo

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for research on HIV/AIDS prevention and management, Yaoundé, Cameroon, National HIV Drug Resistance Prevention and Surveillance Working Group, Ministry of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon

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