HIV/AIDS

Study results from University of Milan provide new insights into HIV/AIDS

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 6th, 2009

"The HIV-1 subsubtype A1 epidemic of the former Soviet Union (FSU) was caused by an A1 variant apparently derived from a single introduction event. We identified an A1 variant highly related to the A1 lineage circulating in the FSU in a patient from Conakry, Republic of Guinea, who was diagnosed with HIV-1 when he moved to Italy in 2002," scientists in Milan, Italy report.

"The most probable route of infection was two blood transfusions received in his country of origin in 1998. Full-length (9781 bp) molecular characterization revealed that this strain was evolutionarily parental to, but distinct from, the A1 lineage circulating in the FSU. Similar results were obtained...

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