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Transmission of resistant HIV type 1 variants and epidemiological chains in Italian newly diagnosed individuals.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Aug 2012
Lai Alessia, Violin Michela, Ebranati Erika, Franzetti Marco, Micheli Valeria, Gismondo Maria Rita, Capetti Amedeo, Meraviglia Paola, Simonetti Francesco Roberto, Bozzi Giorgio, Ciccozzi Masimo, Galli Massimo, Zehender Gianguglielmo, Balotta Claudia
Abstract excerpt
Transmission of HIV-1 and drug resistance continue to occur at a considerable level in Italy, influenced mainly by changes in modality of infection. However, the long period of infectivity makes difficult the interpretation of epidemiological networks, based on epidemiological data only. We studied 510 naive HIV-1-infected individuals, of whom 400 (78.4%) were newly diagnosed patients with an unknown duration of...
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