Spatial epidemiology of recently acquired HIV infections across rural and urban areas of North Carolina.

ABSTRACT: Transmission of HIV continues in the United States (US), despite prevention efforts aimed at education and treatment. Concurrently, drug resistance in HIV, particularly in patients being infected with HIV for the first time, poses a threat to the continued success of treatment for HIV positive individuals. In North Carolina, nearly one in five individuals with acute HIV infection (AHI) is infected with a drug-resistant strain, a phenomenon known as transmitted drug resistance (TDR). Few studies of AHI or TDR take into account both the spatial aspects of residence at time of infection and the genetic characteristics of the viruses, and questions remain about how viruses are transmitted across space and the rural-urban divide. Using AHI strains from North Carolina, we examined whether differ

SUBMITTER: Carrel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3919766 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature