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Detectable signals of episodic risk effects on acute HIV transmission: strategies for analyzing transmission systems using genetic data.
Epidemics - 1 Mar 2013
Alam Shah Jamal, Zhang Xinyu, Romero-Severson Ethan Obie, Henry Christopher, Zhong Lin, Volz Erik M, Brenner Bluma G, Koopman James S
Abstract excerpt
Episodic high-risk sexual behavior is common and can have a profound effect on HIV transmission. In a model of HIV transmission among men who have sex with men (MSM), changing the frequency, duration and contact rates of high-risk episodes can take endemic prevalence from zero to 50% and more than double transmissions during acute HIV infection (AHI). Undirected test and treat could be inefficient in the presence...
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