Pockets of HIV Non-infection Within Highly-Infected Risk Networks in Athens, Greece

Pockets of HIV Non-infection Within Highly-Infected Risk Networks in Athens, Greece

As part of a network study of HIV infection among people who inject drugs (PWID) and their contacts, we discovered a connected subcomponent of 29 uninfected PWID. In the context of a just-declining large epidemic outbreak, this raised a question: What explains the existence of large pockets of uninf...

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Main Authors: Leslie D. Williams, Evangelia-Georgia Kostaki, Eirini Pavlitina, Dimitrios Paraskevis, Angelos Hatzakis, John Schneider, Pavlo Smyrnov, Andria Hadjikou, Georgios K. Nikolopoulos, Mina Psichogiou, Samuel R. Friedman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
networks
HIV transmission
non-infection
HIV risk
firewall effects
bottleneck effects
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01825/full

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