An HIV Type 1 Subtype A Strain of Low Genetic Diversity Continues to Spread among Injecting Drug Users in Russia: Study of the New Local Outbreaks in Moscow and Irkutsk

F. Bobkov, Aleksei; Kazennova, Elena; A. Khanina, Tatyana; Mr, Bobkova; SELIMOVA, LUDMILA; В Кравченко, А; Pokrovsky, Vadim; Weber, Jonathan

doi:10.1089/088922201750063188

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An HIV Type 1 Subtype A Strain of Low Genetic Diversity Continues to Spread among Injecting Drug Users in Russia: Study of the New Local Outbreaks in Moscow and Irkutsk

Published in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses • Feb 10, 2001

Authors:

Aleksei F. Bobkov

Elena Kazennova

Tatyana A. Khanina

Abstract

An explosive epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has been documented among injecting drug users (IDUs) in the former Soviet Union republics. In 1999, the two largest local IDU outbreaks of HIV-1 infection in the Russian Federation were registered in the Moscow and Irkutsk regions...

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Outbreak

Virology

Strain (injury)

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