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. 2006 Dec 14;444(7121):836-7.
doi: 10.1038/444836a.

Molecular epidemiology: HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan outbreak

Tulio de Oliveira  1 , Oliver G Pybus, Andrew Rambaut, Marco Salemi, Sharon Cassol, Massimo Ciccozzi, Giovanni Rezza, Guido Castelli Gattinara, Roberta D'Arrigo, Massimo Amicosante, Luc Perrin, Vittorio Colizzi, Carlo Federico Perno; Benghazi Study Group
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Molecular epidemiology: HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan outbreak

Tulio de Oliveira et al. Nature. .

Abstract

In 1998, outbreaks of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were reported in children attending Al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi, Libya. Here we use molecular phylogenetic techniques to analyse new virus sequences from these outbreaks. We find that the HIV-1 and HCV strains were already circulating and prevalent in this hospital and its environs before the arrival in March 1998 of the foreign medical staff (five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor) who stand accused of transmitting the HIV strain to the children.

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