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UMKC professor discovers new strain of HIV

UMKC professor discovers new strain of HIV

Lucas Cuni-Mertz
November 18, 2019

A UMKC professor helped discover the first new subtype of HIV in nearly 20 years.  The strain, called HIV-1 Group M, Subtype L, comes from the same virus family that caused the HIV pandemic in 1981, which has killed 32 million people to date.  "In an increasingly...

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