High GUD Incidence in the Early 20th Century Created a Particularly Permissive Time Window for the Origin and Initial Spread of Epidemic HIV Strains

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High GUD Incidence in the Early 20^th Century Created a Particularly Permissive Time Window for the Origin and Initial Spread of Epidemic HIV Strains

João Dinis de Sousa ,

* E-mail: joao.sousa@rega.kuleuven.be

Affiliation Laboratory for Clinical and Evolutionary Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Viktor Müller,

Affiliation Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Philippe Lemey,

Affiliation Laboratory for Clinical and Evolutionary Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Anne-Mieke Vandamme

Affiliations Laboratory for Clinical and Evolutionary Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Centro de Malária e Outras Doenças Tropicais, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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HIV groups
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009936#pone-0009936-t001

There is a typo mistake in the table: the last HIV group appearing there at the bottom is, of course, HIV-2 group B, and not group A.

No competing interests declared.

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