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Surging HIV-1 CRF07_BC epidemic among recently infected men who have sex with men in Fujian, China.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jul 2018
Chen Zhi-Wei, Liu Li, Chen Guozhong, Cheung Ka-Wai, Du Yanhua, Yao Xu, Lu Yuan, Chen Liang, Lin Xinhua, Chen Zhiwei
Abstract excerpt
A rapidly increasing number of HIV-1 infections have been identified among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Fujian province of China since 2010. We aimed to investigate the causative factors underlying this surging epidemic. Using immunoassays for HIV-1 diagnosis and phylogenetic analysis for viral genotyping, we found that the number of MSM infections doubled from 171 in 2011 to 340 in 2013 with a...
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