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Genetic diversity and drug resistance among newly diagnosed and antiretroviral treatment-naive HIV-infected individuals in western Yunnan: a hot area of viral recombination in China.
BMC infectious diseases - 28 Dec 2012
Chen Min, Ma Yanling, Duan Song, Xing Hui, Yao Shitang, Su Yingzhen, Luo Hongbing, Yang Li, Chen Huichao, Fu Liru, Qu Aijuan, Ou Chin-Yih, Jia Manhong, Lu Lin
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The emergence of an HIV-1 epidemic in China was first recognized in Dehong, western Yunnan. Due to its geographic location, Dehong contributed greatly in bridging HIV-1 epidemics in Southeast Asia and China through drug trafficking and injection drug use; and also extensively to the HIV genetic diversity in Yunnan and China. We attempt to monitor HIV-1 in this area by studying the HIV-1 genetic...
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