Phylogenetic evidence for underreporting of male-to-male sex among human immunodeficiency virus–infected donors in the Netherlands and Flanders

• Authors: Bezemer D, Claas EC, Compernolle V, de Smet A, van de Laar TJ, Van Laethem K, van Sighem AI, Van Wijngaerden E, Vandamme AM, Vandewalle G, Zaaijer HL
• Publication Year: 2017
• Journal: Transfusion
• Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/trf.14097

Separate transmission networks for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coexist. Molecular typing of viral genomes can provide insight in HIV transmission routes in donors for whom risk behavior-based donor selection failed. This study includes all HIV-infected Dutch and Flemish donors in the period 2005 to 2014 (n = 55). Part of the HIV polymerase (pol) gene was amplified, […]
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