Title |
Diverse forms of HIV-1 among Burmese long-distance truck drivers imply their contribution to HIV-1 cross-border transmission
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Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, August 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-14-463 |
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Authors |
Yan-Heng Zhou, Yue-Bo Liang, Wei Pang, Wei-Hong Qin, Zhi-Hong Yao, Xin Chen, Chiyu Zhang, Yong-Tang Zheng |
Abstract |
The China-Myanmar border is a particularly interesting region that has very high prevalence of and considerable diversity of HIV-1 recombinants. Due to the transient nature of their work, long-distance truck drivers (LDTDs) have a comparatively high potential to become infected with HIV-1 and further spread virus to other individuals in the area they travel within. In this study, we hypothesized that Burmese LDTDs crossing the China-Myanmar border frequently may potentially be involved in the cross-border transmission of HIV, and contribute to the extremely high prevalence of HIV-1 inter-subtype recombinants in this border region. |
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