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HIV/AIDS
Research conducted at University of Edinburgh has provided new information about HIV/AIDS
June 10th, 2008
" The structure of sexual contact networks plays a key role in the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections, and their reconstruction from interview data has provided valuable insights into the spread of infection. For HIV, the long period of infectivity has made the interpretation of contact networks more difficult, and major discrepancies have been observed between the contact network and the transmission network revealed by viral phylogenetics," scientists in Scotland report. "The high rate of HIV evolution in principle allows for detailed reconstruction of links between virus from different individuals, but often sampling has been too sparse to describe the...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-06-10)
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