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Molecular epidemiology identifies HIV transmission networks associated with younger age and heterosexual exposure among Korean individuals.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Oct 2016
Chin Bum Sik, Chaillon Antoine, Mehta Sanjay R, Wertheim Joel O, Kim Gayeon, Shin Hyoung-Shik, Smith Davey M
Abstract excerpt
To evaluate if HIV transmission networks could be elucidated from data collected in a short time frame, 131 HIV-1 pol sequences were analyzed which were generated from treatment-naïve Korean individuals who were sequentially identified over 1 year. A transmission linkage was inferred when there was a genetic distance <1.5% and a total of 16 clusters, involving 39/131 (29.8%), were identified. Younger age and...
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