The HIV type 1 epidemic in Bulgaria involves multiple subtypes and is sustained by continuous viral inflow from West and East European countries

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 771-779

  Salemi, Marco ^a   Goodenow, Maureen M ^a   Montieri, Stefania ^b   De Oliveira, Tulio ^c   Santoro, Maria Mercedes ^d   Beshkov, Danail ^e   Alexiev, Ivailo ^e   Elenkov, Ivailo ^f   Elenkov, Ivan ^g   Yakimova, Tsvetana ^h   Varleva, Tonka ^h   Rezza, Giovanni ^b   Ciccozzi, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

^f Infectious Diseases Hospital   (Bulgaria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^h Ministry of Health Sofia   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BULGARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EASTERN EUROPE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING; WESTERN EUROPE;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BULGARIA; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; POL GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 45849139771     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2007.0181     Document Type: Article

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