Dominance of HIV-1 subtype CRF01_AE in sexually acquired cases leads to a new epidemic in Yunnan province of China.

Dating back to the first epidemic among injection drug users in 1989, the Yunnan province has had the highest number of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infections in China. However, the molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 in Yunnan has not been fully characterized.Using immunoassays, we iden...

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Main Authors: Yong Zhang, Lin Lu, Lei Ba, Li Liu, Li Yang, Manhong Jia, Haibo Wang, Qing Fang, Yuhua Shi, Wenyun Yan, Guangcai Chang, Linqi Zhang, David D Ho, Zhiwei Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-11-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1635743?pdf=render