Transmission of Non-B HIV Subtypes in the United Kingdom Is Increasingly Driven by Large Non-Heterosexual Transmission Clusters

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 213, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1410-1418

  Ragonnet Cronin, Manon ^a   Lycett, Samantha J ^b   Hodcroft, Emma B ^a   Hué, Stphane ^c   Fearnhill, Esther ^d   Brown, Alison E ^e   Delpech, Valerie ^e   Dunn, David ^d   Leigh Brown, Andrew J ^a,f  

^a Institute for Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f Institute for Evolutionary Biology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clusters; crossover; epidemiology; heterosexual; HIV; MSM; phylogenetics; phylogeny; PWID; subtypes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TYPE 1 SUBTYPE A; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TYPE 1 SUBTYPE A1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TYPE 1 SUBTYPE B; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TYPE 1 SUBTYPE C; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TYPE 1 SUBTYPE D; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; NAMED GROUPS OF PERSONS; PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INCIDENCE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84971657258     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv758     Document Type: Article

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