Identification and characterization of a novel HIV-1 circulating recombinant form (CRF59_01B) identified among men-who-have-sex-with-men in China.

Identification and characterization of a novel HIV-1 circulating recombinant form (CRF59_01B) identified among men-who-have-sex-with-men in China.

The HIV-1 epidemic among men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) continues to expand in China. A large-scale national survey we conducted on HIV-1 strains among MSM in 11 provinces in China from 2008 to 2013 (n = 920) identified a novel transmission cluster consisting of six strains (0.7%) that belonged to...

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Main Authors: Weiqing Zhang, Xiaoxu Han, Minghui An, Bin Zhao, Qinghai Hu, Zhenxing Chu, Jiancheng Xu, Weiping Cai, Xi Chen, Jihua Fu, Zhe Wang, Jianjun Wu, Lin Lu, Minghua Zhuang, Hao Wu, Hongjing Yan, Christina Liao, Yutaka Takebe, Hong Shang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4076182?pdf=render

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