摘要 |
Peptides, diagnostic antigens containing said peptides, a vaccine composition containing said peptides and an immunoassay method are described, said method permits discriminating between sera containing antibodies against different African HIV-1 strains and also African versus non-African HIV-1 strains, wherein at least one of said diagnostic antigen(s) is added to a positively diagnosed HIV-1 serum during the immunoassay and the discrimination is established based upon the selective reactions of said antigen(s) with the antibodies in the serum. |