The molecular epidemiology of HIV type 1 among Vietnamese Australian injecting drug users in Melbourne, Australia

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1364-1367

  Ryan, Claire E ^a   Elliott, Julian H ^b   Middleton, Tracey ^c   Mijch, Anne M ^d   Street, Alan C ^b   Hellard, Margaret ^a   Crofts, Nick ^a   Crowe, Suzanne M ^a   Oelrichs, Robert B ^a  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RACE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 11244356793     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2004.20.1364     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Hocking JS, Higgs PG, Keenan CM, and Crofts N: HIV among injecting drug users of Indo-Chinese ethnicity in Victoria. Med J Aust 2002;176(4):191-192.
2. Louie R, Krouskos D, Gonzalez M, and Crofts N: Vietnamese-speaking injecting drug users in Melbourne: The need for harm reduction programs. Aust NZ J Public Health 1998;22(4):481-484.
3. Maher L, Sargent P, Higgs P, Crofts N, Kelsall J, and Le TT. Risk behaviours of young Indo-Chinese injecting drug users in Sydney and Melbourne. Aust N Z J Public Health 2001;25(1):50-54.
4. Swift W, Maher L, and Sunjic S: Transitions between routes of heroin administration: A study of Caucasian and Indochinese heroin users in south-western Sydney, Australia. Addiction 1999;94(1):71-82.
5. Elliott JH, Mijch AM, Street AC, and Crofts N: HIV, ethnicity and travel: HIV infection in Vietnamese Australians associated with injecting drug use. J Clin Virol 2003;26(2):133-142.
6. Kelsall J, Higgs P, and Crofts N: The Vietnamese Harm Reduction Project: Stage 2. Melbourne: The Centre for Harm Reduction, Macfarlane Burnet Centre, 2001.
7. Oelrichs RB, Lawson VA, Coates KM, Chatfield C, Deacon NJ, and McPhee DA: Rapid full-length genomic sequencing of two cytopathically heterogeneous Australian primary HIV-1 isolates. J Biomed Sci 2000;7(2):128-135.
8. Herring BL, Ge YC, Wang B, et al.: Segregation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtypes by risk factor in Australia. J Clin Microbiol 2003;41(10):4600-4604.
9. Tran TT, Maljkovic I, Swartling S, Phung DC, Chiodi F, and Leitner T: HIV-1 CRF01_AE in intravenous drug users in Hanoi, Vietnam. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2004;20(3):341-345.
10. Dwyer DE, Ge YC, Bolton WV, Wang B, Cunningham AL, and Saksena NK: Subtype B isolates of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 detected in Australia. Ann Acad Med Singapore 1996;25(2): 188-191.
11. Lan NT, Recordon-Pinson P, Hung PV, et al.: HIV type 1 isolates from 200 untreated individuals in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam): ANRS 1257 Study. Large predominance of CRF01_AE and presence of major resistance mutations to antiretroviral drugs. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2003;19(10):925-928.
12. Nerurkar VR, Nguyen HT, Dashwood WM, et al.: HIV type 1 subtype E in commercial sex workers and injection drug users in southern Vietnam. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1996;12(9):841-843.
13. Kato K, Kusagawa S, Motomura K, et al. Closely related HIV-1 CRF01_AE variant among injecting drug users in northern Vietnam: Evidence of HIV spread across the Vietnam-China border. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2001;17(2):113-123.
14. Oelrichs RB, Shrestha IL, Anderson DA, and Deacon NJ: The explosive human immunodeficiency virus type 1 epidemic among injecting drug users of Kathmandu, Nepal, is caused by a subtype C virus of restricted genetic diversity. J Virol 2000;74(3):1149-1157.
15. Yu XF, Liu W, Chen J, et al.: Maintaining low HIV type 1 env genetic diversity among injection drug users infected with a B/C recombinant and CRFO1_AE HIV type 1 in southern China. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2002;18(2):167-170.
16. Bobkov A, Kazennova E, Khanina T, et al.: An HIV type 1 subtype A strain of low genetic diversity continues to spread among injecting drug users in Russia: Study of the new local outbreaks in Moscow and Irkutsk. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2001;17(3): 257-261.
17. Crofts N, Aitken CK, and Kaldor JM: The force of numbers: why hepatitis C is spreading among Australian injecting drug users while HIV is not. Med J Aust 1999;170(5):220-221.