Article
Molecular epidemiology of HIV in a cohort of men having sex with men from Istanbul.
Medical microbiology and immunology - 1 Jun 2013
Alpsar Dilek, Agacfidan Ali, Lübke Nadine, Verheyen Jens, Eraksoy Haluk, Cağatay Atahan, Bozkaya Emel, Kaiser Rolf, Akgül Baki
Abstract excerpt
In Turkey, the first HIV/AIDS case was reported in 1985. Since then the number of persons with HIV infection has increased, HIV is getting a public health problem. The aim of this study was to determine HIV-1 subtype diversity, drug resistance and gag cleavage site mutations among 20 HIV-infected men having sex with men from Istanbul, Turkey. The most prevalent subtype was found to be subtype B (50 %), but also...
Topics
- Drug Resistance, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- HIV Infections
- HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- HIV-1
- Homosexuality, Male
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Mutation
