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- Title
Molecular Epidemiology: HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan outbreak.
- Authors
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; Benghazi Study Group
- 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.
- Subjects
MOLECULAR epidemiology; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; HIV; HIV infections; HEPATITIS viruses; GENETIC epidemiology
- Publication
Nature, 2006, Vol 444, Issue 7121, p836
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/444836a