Robert W. Shafer

Publication Details

• Assessment of automated genotyping protocols as tools for surveillance of HIV-1 genetic diversity.

  Gifford R, de Oliveira T, Rambaut A, Myers RE, Gale CV, Dunn D, Shafer R, Vandamme AM, Kellam P, Pillay D. AIDS. 2006; 20 (11): 1521-9

  The routine use of drug resistance testing provides an abundant source of HIV-1 sequence data. However, it is not clear how reliable standard genotyping of these sequences is for describing HIV-1 genetic variation and for detecting novel genetic variants and epidemiological trends.

  PubMedID: 16847407