Economic recession and emergence of an HIV-1 outbreak among drug injectors in Athens metropolitan area: a longitudinal study.

Economic recession and emergence of an HIV-1 outbreak among drug injectors in Athens metropolitan area: a longitudinal study.

BACKGROUND: During 2011, a dramatic increase (1600%) of reported HIV-1 infections among injecting drug users (IDUs) was noted in Athens, Greece. We herein assess the potential causal pathways associated with this outbreak. METHODS: Our study employed high resolution HIV-1 phylogenetic and phylogeogr...

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Main Authors: Dimitrios Paraskevis, Georgios Nikolopoulos, Anastasios Fotiou, Chrissa Tsiara, Dimitra Paraskeva, Vana Sypsa, Marios Lazanas, Panagiotis Gargalianos, Mina Psichogiou, Athanasios Skoutelis, Lucas Wiessing, Samuel R Friedman, Don C D E S Jarlais, Manina Terzidou, Jenny Kremastinou, Meni Malliori, Angelos Hatzakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3827120?pdf=render

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