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Volume 1, Number 3—July 1995
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Epidemiologic and Evolutionary Relationships between Romanian and Brazilian HIV-1 Subtype F Strains

Claudiu I. Bandea*, Artur Ramos*, Danuta Pieniazek*, Rodica Pascu&, Amilcar Tanuri#, Gerald Schochetman*, and Mark A. Rayfield*
Author affiliations: *National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; #Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
; &University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tg-Mures, Romania

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Figure 2

Alignment of deduced amino acid sequences for envelope C2-V3 region of Brazilian and two representative Romanian HIV-1F subtype strains and their comparison with Cameroonian sequenes and the consensus sequences for some other subtypes. F CON represents consensus amino acid sequence (single letter code) for the Romanian and Brazilian F subtype HIV-1 viruses presented in this figure. Consensus sequences for the other subtypes are from Ref. 1. Amnio acids identical to the F CON are shown as a dash,

Figure 2. Alignment of deduced amino acid sequences for envelope C2-V3 region of Brazilian and two representative Romanian HIV-1F subtype strains and their comparison with Cameroonian sequenes and the consensus sequences for some other subtypes. F CON represents consensus amino acid sequence (single letter code) for the Romanian and Brazilian F subtype HIV-1 viruses presented in this figure. Consensus sequences for the other subtypes are from Ref. 1. Amnio acids identical to the F CON are shown as a dash, and the dots represnet gaps introduced to align sequences. The top bar shows the peptide motif at the tip of the V3 protein loop.

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