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Concordance between HIV source partner identification and molecular confirmation in acute retroviral syndrome.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) - 1 Mar 2002
Truong Hong-Ha M, Berrey M Michelle, Shea Theresa, Diem Kurt, Corey Lawrence
Abstract excerpt
Most HIV-1 transmission studies use self-reported history to define the source contact. To evaluate the reliability of epidemiologic source partner reporting, heteroduplex mobility assays (HMAs) were performed comparing the different viral strains present in the partners. Partners were typed for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) to evaluate the degree of shared alleles. Of 11 couples evaluated, HMA analysis confirmed...
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