Short communication: Prevalence of HIV type 1 transmitted drug resistance in Slovenia: 2005-2010
- Authors: Abecasis AB, Karner P, Lunar MM, Maver PJ, Pecavar B, Poljak M, Seme K, Tomazic J, Vidmar L, Vovko TD, Židovec Lepej S
- Journal: AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
- Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3552160/
Slovenia is a small European country with a total of 547 HIV-infected individuals cumulatively reported by the end of 2011. However, the estimated incidence rate of HIV infections increased from 7.0 per million in 2003 to 26.8 per million in 2011. In this study, we assessed the prevalence of transmitted drug resistance (TDR) in the past 6 years (2005–2010) and analyzed the time trend of the proportion of men having sex with men (MSM) and HIV-1 subtype B among newly diagnosed individuals in a 15-year period (1996–2010) in Slovenia.
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