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A large HCV transmission network enabled a fast-growing HIV outbreak in rural Indiana, 2015
1 Nov 2018
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BACKGROUND: A high prevalence (92.3%) of hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection among HIV patients identified during a large HIV outbreak associated with injection of oxymorphone in Indiana prompted genetic analysis of HCV strains. METHODS: Molecular epidemiological analysis of HCV-positive samples included genotyping, sampling intra-host HVR1 variants by next-generation sequencing (NGS) and constructing...
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