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The rapidly expanding CRF01_AE epidemic in China is driven by multiple lineages of HIV-1 viruses introduced in the 1990s.
AIDS (London, England) - 17 Jul 2013
Feng Yi, He Xiang, Hsi Jenny H, Li Fan, Li Xingguang, Wang Quan, Ruan Yuhua, Xing Hui, Lam Tommy Tsan-Yuk, Pybus Oliver G, Takebe Yutaka, Shao Yiming
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OBJECTIVES: We sought to comprehensively analyze the origin, transmission patterns and sub-epidemic clusters of the HIV-1 CRF01_AE strains in China. METHODS: Available HIV-1 CRF01_AE samples indentified in national molecular epidemiologic surveys were used to generate near full-length genome (NFLG) sequences. The new and globally available CRF01_AE NFLG sequences were subjected to phylogenetic and Bayesian...
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