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A nascent HIV type 1 epidemic among injecting drug users in Kabul, Afghanistan is dominated by complex AD recombinant strain, CRF35_AD.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Jun 2007
Sanders-Buell E, Saad M D, Abed A M, Bose M, Todd C S, Strathdee S A, Botros B A, Safi N, Earhart K C, Scott P T, Michael N, McCutchan F E
Abstract excerpt
Injecting drug use (IDU), common in global centers of heroin production, confers significant risk for HIV-1 infection. Once introduced into IDU networks, an explosive rise in HIV-1 infection typically occurs, fueled principally by needle sharing. New HIV-1 epidemics in IDUs have occurred in Russia, China, Thailand, Spain, Iran, and in other countries, and some have spread into other risk groups in their...
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