A public health model for the molecular surveillance of HIV transmission in San Diego, California

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BACKGROUND: Current public health efforts often use molecular technologies to identify and contain communicable disease networks, but not for HIV. Here, we investigate how molecular epidemiology can be used to identify highly related HIV networks within a population and how voluntary contact tracing of sexual partners can be used to selectively target these networks. METHODS: We evaluated the use of HIV-1 pol...

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