Chronology of the HIV-1CRF07BC expansion in East Asia

• Main Authors: Tee, K.K., Pybus, O.G., Liao, H., Uenishi, R., Hase, S., Kamarulzaman, A., Li, X.J., Takebe, Y.
• Format: Article
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/4548/

The HIV-1 epidemic among injecting drug users (IDU) in Taiwan is caused primarily by CRF07BC infections. Evolutionary analyses, which utilize outgroup reference strains from northwestern China (Xinjiang), reveal that CRF07BC was introduced into southern Taiwan in 1998-2001 and spread to central-nort...