Virology

Frequency of occurrence of HIV-1 dual infection in a Belgian MSM population

L. Hebberecht, L. Vancoillie, M. Schauvliege, D. Staelens, K. Dauwe, V. Mortier, and C. Verhofstede. PLOS One: HIV-1 superinfection in MSM, 6 April 2018. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Citation: "…Subtyping of the HIV-1 infection at diagnosis was done using the subtyping tool of Smartgene IDNS... and the protease and reverse transcriptase sequences generated for the purpose of baseline resistance analysis. … Proofreading was done using Smartgene IDNS. … Population HIV-1 protease-reverse transcriptase sequences were obtained through routine laboratory activities for the purpose of drug resistance analysis using an in-house Sanger sequencing protocol. … For the sequences generated by clonal or population sequencing, proofreading was done using Smartgene IDNS (Smartgene, Zug, Switzerland). ..."