Detection of transmission clusters of HIV-1 subtype C over a 21-year period in Cape Town, South Africa.

Despite recent breakthroughs in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic within South Africa, the transmission of the virus continues at alarmingly high rates. It is possible, with the use of phylogenetic methods, to uncover transmission events of HIV amongst local communities in order to identify fa...

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Main Authors: Eduan Wilkinson, Susan Engelbrecht, Tulio de Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4214637?pdf=render