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The rate of epidemiological and virological changes during the transition from nascent to concentrated HIV epidemic stage in the former Soviet Union countries.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Feb 2007
Nabatov Alexey A, Masharsky Alexey E, Verevochkin Sergei V, Emelyanov Alexander V, Lukashov Vladimir V, Heimer Robert, Ryder Robert W, Goudsmit Jaap, Kozlov Andrei P
Abstract excerpt
The rate of processes accompanying the transition of the HIV-1 epidemic from nascent stage to concentrated one in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) during intravenous drug user (IDU)-associated HIV infection outbreaks in 1994-1999 has not been analyzed. To define the rates, we studied susceptible populations and circulating viruses before, during, and after the outbreaks. Our findings included the following: (1) the...
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