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Ascertaining the 2004-2006 HIV type 1 CRF07_BC outbreak among injecting drug users in Taiwan.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Oct 2013
Hsieh Ying-Hen
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the explosive 2004-2006 outbreak of HIV-1 CRF07_BC among intravenous drug users (IDU) in Taiwan, which more than doubled the total number of reported HIV cases in less than 3 years, resulting in a 45-fold increase in cumulative IDU/HIV cases and a 40-fold increase in previously seldom-reported female IDU/HIV cases. METHODS: A mathematical model was utilized to fit the monthly case data, in...
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