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Sequence and phylogenetic analyses of HIV-1 infection in Vietnam: subtype E in commercial sex workers (CSW) and injection drug users (IDU).
Cellular and molecular biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France) - 1 Nov 1997
Nerurkar V R, Nguyen H T, Woodward C L, Hoffmann P R, Dashwood W M, Long H T, Morens D M, Detels R, Yanagihara R
Abstract excerpt
More than 4,000 persons with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection have been identified in Vietnam through sentinel surveillance since 1990, when the first case of HIV-1 infection was diagnosed in a young woman in Ho Chi Minh City. Currently, the estimated HIV-1 seroprevalences of 10% for injection drug users (IDU) and 3% for female commercial sex workers (CSW) in Vietnam are comparable to those...
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