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[Infection caused by the human immunodeficiency virus type 2 in the USSR]
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii, Epidemiologii I Immunobiologii
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
The serological study of 20 sera, showing atypical reaction with HIV-1 in the immunoblotting assay, for the presence of HIV-2 infection revealed some cases of this infection among Africans who had arrived to the USSR from Western Africa (5 cases) and Burundi (1 case); besides, in 1 case HIV-2 infection was detected in a Soviet female citizen having had many sexual partners among foreigners.