To the Editor: After the publication of our review article abouthuman immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) subtype diversity(April 10 issue),1 the data cited in the first row of Table3 in our article, from an abstract by Nkengafac et al.2 (reference68 in our article), were retracted by the authors, owing toa breach of scientific integrity.3 Thus, in the online versionof our article, the first row of our Table 3 has been removedand reference 68 is noted as having been retracted.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 ResearchProgram, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement ofMilitary Medicine, Rockville, MD," and under Classificationand Molecular Epidemiology of HIV (page 1591), the second sentenceshould 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{at}columbia.edu
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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. [Free Full Text]
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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