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Correction

The Challenge of HIV-1 Subtype Diversity

N Engl J Med 2008; 359:1965-1966October 30, 2008

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To the Editor:

After the publication of our review article about human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) subtype diversity (April 10 issue),1 the data cited in the first row of Table 3 in our article, from an abstract by Nkengafac et al.2 (reference 68 in our article), were retracted by the authors, owing to a breach of scientific integrity.3 Thus, in the online version of our article, the first row of our Table 3 has been removed and reference 68 is noted as having been retracted.

In addition, the affiliation for Francine E. McCutchan, Ph.D., (page 1590) should have been “the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Rockville, MD,” and under Classification and Molecular Epidemiology of HIV (page 1591), the second sentence should have begun with “Subtypes and sub-subtypes.”

Barbara S. Taylor, M.D.
Scott M. Hammer, M.D.
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032
bs2026@columbia.edu

3 References

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   Taylor BS, Sobieszczyk ME, McCutchan FE, Hammer SM. The challenge of HIV-1 subtype diversity. N Engl J Med 2008;358:1590-1602
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   Nkengafac A, Tina S, Sua F, Mason T, Auyuketta N, Oben S. Molecular epidemiology and prevalence of drug resistance-associated mutations in newly diagnosed HIV-1 patients in Cameroon. Antivir Ther 2007;12:Suppl 1:S50-S50
   

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   Retraction: Molecular epidemiology and prevalence of drug resistance-associated mutations in newly diagnosed HIV-1 patients in Cameroon. Antivir Ther 2008;13:845. (Also available at http://www.intmedpress.com/images/File/Retraction_Nkengafac.pdf.)
   

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