The Number and Complexity of Pure and Recombinant HIV-1 Strains Observed within Incident Infections during the HIV and Malaria Cohort Study Conducted in Kericho, Kenya, from 2003 to 2006

Below:  Pure subtype and recombinant virus distribution observed during the incident infection study.

The proportion of pure subtype and recombinant strains for the Kericho, Kenya Tea Plantation (community cohort) incident infection study conducted from 2003 to 2006.

Below:  Genome structures of 33 HIV-1 recombinant strains identified during this community cohort incident infection study.

(a) The incident recombinant genomes are depicted in relation to the HXB2 reference strain. Each colored region represents the predicted parent subtype based on the results from Recombinant Breakpoint Analysis; subtype A1 is shown in red, A2 in pink, C in yellow, and D in blue. (b) The two A2D strains with similar structures are shown compared to the CRF16_A2D reference breakpoints from hiv.lanl.gov. The A2D strains do appear to be CRF16_A2D infections, but are not directly linked (see text).

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