Table 2.

Genetic distance of HIV-1 sequences derived by SGS and PCR/cloning

Patient	HIV RNA copies/ml	Average Pairwise Difference SGS, %	Average Pairwise Difference PCR/Cloning, %	Average Pairwise Difference Between Assays, %	p(K*s)
1	99,000	1.27%	1.19%	0.08%	0.76
2	19,467	1.30%	0.87%	0.43%	0.06
3	45,708	0.52%	0.23%	0.29%	0.27
4	61,022	0.20%	0.46%	0.26%	0.024
5	200,000	2.04%	1.95%	0.09%	0.95
6	17,796	0.20%	0.40%	0.20%	0.01
7	154,000	1.95%	2.08%	0.13%	0.15
8	34,000	0.95%	0.82%	0.13%	0.67
9	5,323	0.81%	0.77%	0.04%	0.01
10	3,446	1.33%	1.20%	0.13%	0.0001+
11	54,018	0.71%	1.20%	0.49%	0.0008+
12	3,401	0.66%	0.63%	0.03%	0.0001+
13	679	1.30%	1.23%	0.07%	0.034
14	490	0.74%	1.16%	0.42%	0.0031
15	300,000	0.18%	0.36%	0.18%	0.0268
16	34,000	0.32%	0.54%	0.22%	0.18
17	750	1.14%	0.99%	0.15%	0.62

⁺Statistically significant difference p(K*s) <0.003