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Clade C HIV-1 isolates circulating in Southern Africa exhibit a greater frequency of dicysteine motif-containing Tat variants than those in Southeast Asia and cause increased neurovirulence

Overview of attention for article published in Retrovirology, June 2013
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Title
Clade C HIV-1 isolates circulating in Southern Africa exhibit a greater frequency of dicysteine motif-containing Tat variants than those in Southeast Asia and cause increased neurovirulence
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Retrovirology, June 2013
DOI 10.1186/1742-4690-10-61
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Vasudev R Rao, Ujjwal Neogi, Joshua S Talboom, Ligia Padilla, Mustafizur Rahman, Cari Fritz-French, Sandra Gonzalez-Ramirez, Anjali Verma, Charles Wood, Ruth M Ruprecht, Udaykumar Ranga, Tasnim Azim, John Joska, Eliseo Eugenin, Anita Shet, Heather Bimonte-Nelson, William R Tyor, Vinayaka R Prasad

Abstract

HIV-1 Clade C (Subtype C; HIV-1C) is responsible for greater than 50% of infections worldwide. Unlike clade B HIV-1 (Subtype B; HIV-1B), which is known to cause HIV associated dementia (HAD) in approximately 15% to 30% of the infected individuals, HIV-1C has been linked with lower prevalence of HAD (0 to 6%) in India and Ethiopia. However, recent studies report a higher prevalence of HAD in South Africa, Zambia and Botswana, where HIV-1C infections predominate. Therefore, we examined whether Southern African HIV-1C is genetically distinct and investigated its neurovirulence. HIV-1 Tat protein is a viral determinant of neurocognitive dysfunction. Therefore, we focused our study on the variations seen in tat gene and its contribution to HIV associated neuropathogenesis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
South Africa 1 1%
Unknown 86 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 15%
Student > Bachelor 11 13%
Student > Master 11 13%
Student > Postgraduate 7 8%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 21 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 6%
Psychology 5 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 5%
Other 15 17%
Unknown 25 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 December 2021.
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