The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations

R. Faria, Nuno; Rambaut, Andrew; A. Suchard, Marc; Baele, Guy; Bedford, Trevor; J. Ward, Melissa; J. Tatem, Andrew; Sousa, João; Arinaminpathy, Nimalan; Pépin, Jacques; Posada, David; Peeters, Martine; G. Pybus, Oliver; Lemey, Philippe

doi:10.1126/science.1256739

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The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations

Published in Science • Oct 2, 2014

Authors:

Nuno R. Faria

Andrew Rambaut

Marc A. Suchard

Abstract

Thirty years after the discovery of HIV-1, the early transmission, dissemination, and establishment of the virus in human populations remain unclear. Using statistical approaches applied to HIV-1 sequence data from central Africa, we show that from the 1920s Kinshasa (in what is now the Democratic R...

Subject

Transmission (telecommunications)

Pandemic

Population

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