New Emerging Recombinant HIV-1 Strains and Close Transmission Linkage of HIV-1 Strains in the Chinese MSM Population Indicate a New Epidemic Risk

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Jianjun ^a   Meng, Zhefeng ^b   Xu, Jianqing ^b   Lei, Yanhua ^d   Jin, Lin ^a   Zhong, Ping ^c   Han, Renzhi ^e   Su, Bin ^a  

^a Anhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^e LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHINA; CHINESE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STRUCTURAL GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HIV-1; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; PANDEMICS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 84872763873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054322     Document Type: Article

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