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HIV-1 epidemiology and circulating subtypes in the countryside of South Brazil.
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - 1 Jan 2000
Librelotto Carina Sperotto, Gräf Tiago, Simon Daniel, de Almeida Sabrina Esteves Matos, Lunge Vagner Ricardo
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has spread worldwide, with several subtypes and circulating recombinant forms. Brazil has an incidence of 20.5 HIV-1/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients per 100,000 inhabitants; however, the Southernmost State of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) has more than twice the number of HIV-1-infected people (41.3/100,000 inhabitants) and a different pattern...
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