title: High prevalence of HIV type 1 subtype B' among heterosexuals in Western Hubei, Central China: bridging the epidemic into the general population.
abstract: A molecular epidemiological investigation (n = 62) conducted in western Hubei, Central China, revealed that HIV-1 subtype B' (Thailand variant of subtype B) predominated not only among former plasma donors (FPDs) (29/29, 100%) but also among heterosexuals (27/31, 87%), suggesting that subtype B' appears to bridge the spread from FPDs in the general population in this particular area in Central China.
authors.affiliation: The State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, The People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takebe
authors.forename: Jixian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Rongge
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology*; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D020010:Heterosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015995:Prevalence; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA