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Recent HIV-1 Outbreak Among Intravenous Drug Users in Romania: Evidence for Cocirculation of CRF14_BG and Subtype F1 Strains.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 May 2015
Niculescu Iulia, Paraschiv Simona, Paraskevis Dimitrios, Abagiu Adrian, Batan Ionelia, Banica Leontina, Otelea Dan
Abstract excerpt
Since 2011, Romania has faced an HIV outbreak among injecting drug users (IDUs). Our aim was to identify and describe clinical and epidemiological patterns of this outbreak. A cross-sectional study enrolled 138 IDUs diagnosed with HIV infection between 2011 and 2013 with 58 sexually infected individuals included as the control group. The IDUs had a long history of heroin abuse (10 years) and a recent history of...
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