Molecular epidemiology demonstrated three emerging clusters of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype B infection in Hong Kong

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 903-910

  Leung, Tommy W C ^a   Mak, Darwin ^a   Wong, K H ^a   Wang, Y ^b   Song, Y H ^b   Tsang, D N C ^c   Wong, C ^a   Shao, Y M ^b   Lim, W L ^a,d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^d DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; GENOMIC RNA; PROTEIN P17; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GAG GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; GENES, ENV; GENES, GAG; HIV ANTIGENS; HIV CORE PROTEIN P24; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 48749092579     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2007.0272     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Simon F, Mauclere P, Roques P, et al.: Identification of a new human immunodeficiency virus type I distinct from group M and group O. Nat Med 1998;4:1032-1037.
2. Ayouba A, Souquieres S, Njinku B, et al.: HIV-1 group N among HIV-1-seropositive individuals in Cameroon. AIDS 2000;14:2623-2625.
3. Takebe Y, Kusagawa S, and Motomura K: Molecular epidemiology of HIV: Tracking AIDS pandemic. Pediatr Int 2004;46:236-244.
4. Thomson MM and Najera R: Molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 variants in the global AIDS pandemic: An update. AIDS Rev 2005;7:210-224.
5. Los Alamos Laboratory: The circulating recombinant forms (CRFs), 2007 [http://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/sequence/HIV/CRFs/CRFs.html].
6. Geretti AM: HIV-1 subtypes: Epidemiology and significance for HIV management. Curr Opin Infect Dis 2006;19:1-7.
7. Leitner T and Fitch WM: The phylogenetics of known transmission histories. In: The Evolution of HIV (Crandall KA, ed.). John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1999, pp. 315-345.
8. Diaz RS, Zhang L, Busch MP, et al.: Divergence of HIV-1 quasispecies in an epidemiologic cluster. AIDS 1997;11:415-422.
9. Holmes EC, Zhang LQ, Simmonds P, et al.: Molecular investigation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in a patient of an HIV-infected surgeon. J Infect Dis 1993;167:1411-1414.
10. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Human immunodeficiency virus transmission in household setting-United States. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1994;43:347-356.
11. Robbins KE, Weidle PJ, Brown TM, et al.: Molecular analysis in support of an investigation of a cluster of HIV-1-infected women. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2002;18:1157-1161.
12. Veenstra J, Schuurman R, Cornelissen M, et al.: Transmission of zidovudine-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 variants following deliberate injection of blood from a patient with AIDS: Characteristics and natural history of the virus. Clin Infect Dis 1995;21:556-560.
13. Special Preventive Programme: Tracking the characteristics and outcome of HIV/AIDS patients care for at the Integrated Treatment Centre-A report of 1999 to 2005, Hong Kong, Department of Health, 2006.
14. Lim WL, Xing H, Wong KH, et al.: The lack of epidemiological link between the HIV type 1 infections in Hong Kong and Mainland China. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2004;20:259-262.
15. Kwok S and Higuchi R: Avoiding false positives with PCR. Nature 1989;339:237-238.
16. Millar BC, Xu J, and Moore JE: Risk assessment models and contamination management: Implications for broad-range ribosomal DNA PCR as a diagnostic tool in medical bacteriology. J Clin Microbiol 2002;40:1575-1580.
17. Leitner T, Korber B, Daniels M, et al.: HIV-1 subtype and circulating recombinant form (CRF) reference sequences. In: HIV Compendium 2005. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 2005, pp. 41-48.
18. Rozanov M, Plikat U, Chappey C, et al.: A web-based genotyping resource for viral sequences. Nucleic Acids Res 2004;32:654-659.
19. Kumar S, Tamura K, and Nei M: MEGA3: Integrated software for molecular evolutionary genetics analysis and sequence alignment. Brief Bioinform 2004;5:150-163.
20. Surveillance Office, Special Preventive Programme: A cluster of HIV infections in Hong Kong. [Factsheet 2]. Hong Kong, Department of Health, 2006.
21. Surveillance Office, Special Preventive Programme: Two clusters of HIV-1 subtype infections in Hong Kong. [Fact-sheet 4]. Hong Kong, Department of Health, 2006.
22. Freed EO: HIV-1 gag proteins: Diverse functions in the virus life cycle. Virology 1998;251:1-15.
23. Yu X, Yu QC, Lee TH, et al.: The C terminus of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 matrix protein is involved in early steps of the virus life cycle. J Virol 1992;66:5667-5670.
24. McCormack GP, Glynn JR, Clewley JP, et al.: Emergence of a three codon deletion in gag p17 in HIV type 1 subtype C long-term survivors, and general population spread. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2006;22:195-201.
25. Au A, Wong KH, and Mak D: Investigation of a large cluster of HIV-1 subtype B infections in Hong Kong. Communicable Diseases Watch 2007;4:97-98. [http://www.chp.gov.hk/cdw].