A snapshot of HIV-1 genetic diversity in Dominican Republic in 2024: Predominance of the B_Car lineage and first description of a CRF02-AG isolate

• Lily Soto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lily Soto, Yoneira F. Sulbaran

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

  Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical, UCV, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Yoneira F. Sulbaran ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lily Soto, Yoneira F. Sulbaran

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

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Rossana C. Jaspe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Francisco Ureña,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital Regional Universitario Dr. Luis Manuel Morillo King, Especialista en Infectología, La Vega, República Dominicana

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• Yoel Garcia,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital Regional Presidente Estrella Ureña, Santiago, República Dominicana

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• Carmen Luisa Loureiro,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Héctor R. Rangel ,

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

  * E-mail: hrangel2006@gmail.com (HRR); fhpujol@gmail.com (FHP)

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela

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• Flor H. Pujol

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hrangel2006@gmail.com (HRR); fhpujol@gmail.com (FHP)

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, CMBC, IVIC, Caracas, Venezuela

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6086-6883

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