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Cross-border sexual transmission of the newly emerging HIV-1 clade CRF51_01B.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Cheong Hui Ting, Ng Kim Tien, Ong Lai Yee, Chook Jack Bee, Chan Kok Gan, Takebe Yutaka, Kamarulzaman Adeeba, Tee Kok Keng
Abstract excerpt
A novel HIV-1 recombinant clade (CRF51_01B) was recently identified among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Singapore. As cases of sexually transmitted HIV-1 infection increase concurrently in two socioeconomically intimate countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, cross transmission of HIV-1 between said countries is highly probable. In order to investigate the timeline for the emergence of HIV-1 CRF51_01B in...
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