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Genotypic Inference of HIV-1 Tropism Using Population-based Sequencing of V3
Published on: December 28, 2010
Molecular epidemiology: HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan outbreak
Tulio de Oliveira1, Oliver G Pybus, Andrew Rambaut
1Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. tulio.deoliveira@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Abstract:
In 1998, outbreaks of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were reported in children attending Al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi, Libya. Here we use molecular phylogenetic techniques to analyse new virus sequences from these outbreaks. We find that the HIV-1 and HCV strains were already circulating and prevalent in this hospital and its environs before the arrival in March 1998 of the foreign medical staff (five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor) who stand accused of transmitting the HIV strain to the children.
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