Potential for HIV transmission through unsafe injections

AIDS

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1074-1076

  Apetrei, Cristian ^a,b   Becker, Joseph ^a   Metzger, Michael ^a   Gautam, Rajeev ^a   Engle, John ^a   Wales, Anne Katherine ^a   Eyong, M ^c   Enyong, Peter ^c   Sama, Martyn ^c   Foley, Brian T ^d   Drucker, Ernest ^d   Marx, Preston A ^a,b  

^a TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Medical Research Station   (Cameroon)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CAMEROON; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; RNA ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SAFETY; SYRINGE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CAMEROON; GENES, ENV; GENES, GAG; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; NEEDLES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; RURAL HEALTH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYRINGES;

EID: 33646340712     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000222085.21540.8a     Document Type: Article

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