Serological and molecular typing of HIV type 1 infection in the Tiriyo tribe, a native Indian community of the Amazon region of Brazil.

AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses

Laboratório de Virologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil.

Published: December 2006

The seroprevalence and the occurrence of an HIV-1 subtype was assessed in blood samples of the Tiriyo tribe. Antibody was found in 0.6% and the molecular analysis of the pro region detected the emergence of a subtype B for the first time in a native Indian tribe of the Amazon region of Brazil.

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