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Integration of Contact Tracing and Phylogenetics in an Investigation of Acute HIV Infection.
Sexually transmitted diseases - 1 Apr 2018
Dennis Ann M, Pasquale Dana K, Billock Rachael, Beagle Steve, Mobley Victoria, Cope Anna, Kuruc JoAnn, Sebastian Joseph, Walworth Charles, Leone Peter A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The integration of traditional contact tracing with HIV sequence analyses offers opportunities to mitigate some of the barriers to effective network construction. We used combined analyses during an outbreak investigation of spatiotemporally clustered acute HIV infections to evaluate if the observed clustering was the product of a single outbreak. METHODS: We investigated acute and recent HIV index...
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