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Transmission of zidovudine-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 variants following deliberate injection of blood from a patient with AIDS: characteristics and natural history of the virus.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Sept 1995
Veenstra J, Schuurman R, Cornelissen M, van't Wout A B, Boucher C A, Schuitemaker H, Goudsmit J, Coutinho R A
Abstract excerpt
We describe the development and persistence of severe immunodeficiency in a previously healthy young woman shortly after she was deliberately injected with blood that was drawn from a patient with AIDS. The heterogenous populations of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in donor and recipient were as closely related as those reported in previous cases of proven transmission. The relatively large proportion of...
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