1. Molecular Epidemiology: HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan outbreak.
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de Oliveira, Tulio, Pybus, Oliver G., Rambaut, Andrew, Salemi, Marco, Cassol, Sharon, Ciccozzi, Massimo, Rezza, Giovanni, Gattinara, Guido Castelli, D'Arrigo, Roberta, Amicosante, Massimo, Perrin, Luc, Colizzi, Vittorio, Perno, Carlo Federico, and Benghazi Study Group
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MOLECULAR epidemiology ,INFECTIOUS disease transmission ,HIV ,HIV infections ,HEPATITIS viruses ,GENETIC epidemiology - Abstract
In 1998, outbreaks of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were reported in children attending Al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi, Libya. Here we use molecular phylogenetic techniques to analyse new virus sequences from these outbreaks. We find that the HIV-1 and HCV strains were already circulating and prevalent in this hospital and its environs before the arrival in March 1998 of the foreign medical staff (five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor) who stand accused of transmitting the HIV strain to the children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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