The Role of Viral Introductions in Sustaining Community-Based HIV Epidemics in Rural Uganda: Evidence from Spatial Clustering, Phylogenetics, and Egocentric Transmission Models

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Grabowski, Mary K ^a   Lessler, Justin ^a   Redd, Andrew D ^b   Kagaayi, Joseph ^c   Laeyendecker, Oliver ^a,b,d   Ndyanabo, Anthony ^c   Nelson, Martha I ^e   Cummings, Derek A T ^a   Bwanika, John Baptiste ^c   Mueller, Amy C ^d   Reynolds, Steven J ^b,c,d   Munshaw, Supriya ^d   Ray, Stuart C ^d   Lutalo, Tom ^c   Manucci, Jordyn ^d   Tobian, Aaron A R ^a,c,d   Chang, Larry W ^c,d   Beyrer, Chris ^a   Jennings, Jacky M ^d   Nalugoda, Fred ^c   Serwadda, David ^c,f   Wawer, Maria J ^a,c   Quinn, Thomas C ^b,d   Gray, Ronald H ^a,c   more..

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c RAKAI HEALTH SCIENCES PROGRAM   (Uganda)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; CONCURRENT SEXUAL PARTNERSHIP; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSTITUTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; UGANDA; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WESTERN BLOTTING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV-1; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899033140     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001610     Document Type: Article

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