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Seventeen-year-old mother-to-child HIV type 1 transmission identified by phylogeny and signature patterns

Terese L Katzenstein, Ann Berith Petersen, Louise Bruun Jørgensen, Tine Johanne Strand, Tina Vasehus Madsen, Jan Gerstoft

Abstract

A case, in which the clinical suspicion of perinatal HIV transmission of a newly diagnosed 17-year-old woman was supported by the phylogenetic analyses of pol sequences obtained for routine resistance testing and further substantiated by analyses of gag and env, is described.

Original languageEnglish
JournalAIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
Volume24
Issue number8
Pages (from-to)1117-20
Number of pages4
ISSN0889-2229
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Adolescent
  • Base Sequence
  • Female
  • Genes, Viral/genetics
  • HIV Infections/transmission
  • HIV-1/genetics
  • Humans
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phylogeny
  • Pregnancy

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