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Scientific news sheets presents each month the latest results of research from the three scientific department of the IRD :

  • environment,
  • living ressources,
  • humanities and health.

They reflect the current event of the institute's researchers and make comprehensible the actual challenges of the research for the development of southern countries.

Intended for the general public, for the media and for the partners of the IRD, they pass on a clear, synthetic and understandable scientific information. Translated into English and Spanish, they are distributed by the representations of the IRD worldwide and downloadable on internet.

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Hiv-1 : recombination between two strains from widely distant groups

Scientific news sheets

January 2000

The retrovirus laboratory of IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement, ex-ORSTOM) at Montpellier has, for the first time, identified in vivo a strain of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) which results from a recombination between two Aids viruses which are genetically widely different.

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