| Literature DB >> 18090407 |
Kok Keng Tee1, Oliver G Pybus, Huanan Liao, Rie Uenishi, Saiki Hase, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Xiao-Jie Li, Yutaka Takebe.
Abstract
The HIV-1 epidemic among injecting drug users (IDU) in Taiwan is caused primarily by CRF07_BC infections. Evolutionary analyses, which utilize outgroup reference strains from northwestern China (Xinjiang), reveal that CRF07_BC was introduced into southern Taiwan in 1998-2001 and spread to central-northern Taiwan in 2001-2003, causing the largest HIV/AIDS epidemic in Taiwan. The separate introduction of CRF07_BC into Xinjiang occurred in 1992-1995. This study illustrates the temporal dynamics of CRF07_BC spread among IDU across east Asia.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18090407 DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f2d77a
Source DB: PubMed Journal: AIDS ISSN: 0269-9370 Impact factor: 4.177