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Genetic Variants of HIV Type 1 in Men Who Have Sex with Men in Russia.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Oct 2017
Kazennova Elena, Laga Vita, Gromov Konstantin, Lebedeva Nataliya, Zhukova Eugenia, Pronin Alexander, Grezina Liliya, Dement'eva Nataliya, Shemshura Andrey, Bobkova Marina
Abstract excerpt
The men who have sex with men (MSM) population infected with HIV is poorly studied in Russia because of stigma and discrimination. In the first years of the HIV epidemic, the only HIV genetic variant that circulated among MSM was subtype B, usually acquired abroad. Meanwhile, the massive epidemic of HIV in Russia was caused by a highly homogenic subtype A variant, AFSU (A6), and spread mainly among drug users. In...
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