Gustavo H Kijak, Eric Sanders-Buell, Phuc Pham, Elizabeth A Harbolick, Celina Oropeza, Anne Marie O'Sullivan, Meera Bose, Charmagne G Beckett, Mark Milazzo, Merlin L Robb, Sheila A Peel, Paul T Scott, Nelson L Michael, Adam W Armstrong, Jerome H Kim, David M Brett-Major, Sodsai Tovanabutra
The analysis of HIV-1 sequences has helped understand the viral molecular epidemiology, monitor the development of antiretroviral drug resistance, and design candidate vaccines. The introduction of single genome amplification (SGA) has been a major advancement in the field, allowing for the characterization of multiple sequences per patient while preserving linkage among polymorphisms in the same viral genome copy. Sequencing of SGA amplicons is performed by capillary Sanger sequencing, which presents low throughput, requires a high amount of template, and is highly sensitive to template/primer mismatching...
March 2019: Biomolecular Detection and Quantification