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An HIV type 1 subtype A strain of low genetic diversity continues to spread among injecting drug users in Russia: study of the new local outbreaks in Moscow and Irkutsk.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 10 Feb 2001
Bobkov A, Kazennova E, Khanina T, Bobkova M, Selimova L, Kravchenko A, Pokrovsky V, Weber J
Abstract excerpt
An explosive epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has been documented among injecting drug users (IDUs) in the former Soviet Union republics. In 1999, the two largest local IDU outbreaks of HIV-1 infection in the Russian Federation were registered in the Moscow and Irkutsk regions, where 13,004 HIV-1 cases were identified (44% of the total number of HIV-1 infections in Russia in 1999). To study...
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