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Social and Genetic Networks of HIV-1 Transmission in New York City.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Jan 2017
Wertheim Joel O, Kosakovsky Pond Sergei L, Forgione Lisa A, Mehta Sanjay R, Murrell Ben, Shah Sharmila, Smith Davey M, Scheffler Konrad, Torian Lucia V
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Sexually transmitted infections spread across contact networks. Partner elicitation and notification are commonly used public health tools to identify, notify, and offer testing to persons linked in these contact networks. For HIV-1, a rapidly evolving pathogen with low per-contact transmission rates, viral genetic sequences are an additional source of data that can be used to infer or refine...
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