{"id":84,"date":"2006-03-15T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T12:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=84"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:19:07","slug":"what-is-an-hiv-sub-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/84","title":{"rendered":"What is an HIV sub-type?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are different strains of HIV-1 and these are called sub-types. Most        of these sub-types are still very similar. In European and America most        infections are with sub-type B; in south East Asia Subtype E is prominent,        and in Southern and Eastern Africa Sub-Type C is most common.<\/p>\n<p>Reinfection and recombination of different viruses mean that some people        are infected with two different sub-types, or a mixture of sub-types i.e.        in West Africa, sub-type A plus G is a common virus.<\/p>\n<p>(Adapted from a question from the i-Base Q&amp;A pages of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africaneyetrust.org.uk\/\">African Eye<\/a> a new treatment publication for African communities affected by HIV who are living in the UK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are different strains of HIV-1 and these are called sub-types. Most of these sub-types are still very similar. In European and America most infections are with sub-type B; in south East Asia Subtype E is prominent, and in Southern &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}