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by pas 1852 days ago
Just to make things a bit more interesting (and grim): every HIV patient has multiple variants at the same time. In this regard HIV is pretty much like cancer :(

> Nucleotide sequences of the hypervariable V3 region of HIV-1 obtained from different organs of one patient demonstrated distinct viral variants.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8151287/