Article
Temporal trends in the HIV-1 epidemic in Russia: predominance of subtype A.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Oct 2004
Bobkov Aleksei F, Kazennova Elena V, Selimova Ludmila M, Khanina Tatyana A, Ryabov Grigory S, Bobkova Marina R, Sukhanova Anna L, Kravchenko Aleksei V, Ladnaya Natalia N, Weber Jonathan N, Pokrovsky Vadim V
Abstract excerpt
During the period 1996-1997, three highly homogeneous variants of HIV-1 were identified, circulating among injecting drug users (IDUs) in the former Soviet Union republics. One of these belonged to HIV-1 genetic subtype A (IDU-A), another belonged to HIV-1 genetic subtype B (IDU-B) and the third was a recombinant between the first two variants (CRF03_AB). However, since 1997, the HIV-1 epidemic has affected an...
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