Determining the Direction of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission: Benefits and Potential Harms of Taking Phylogenetic Analysis One Step Further

Barbara S Taylor^{1

2}, Hugo Sapién²

Affiliations

¹ University of Texas Health San Antonio or University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
² End Stigma End HIV Alliance, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Comment

Barbara S Taylor et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2021.

. 2021 Jan 23;72(1):38-40.

doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz1248.

Barbara S Taylor^{1

2}, Hugo Sapién²

¹ University of Texas Health San Antonio or University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
² End Stigma End HIV Alliance, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: HIV; direction of transmission; medical ethics; phylogenetic analysis.

Comment on

Evaluation of Phylogenetic Methods for Inferring the Direction of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Transmission: HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 052.
Zhang Y, Wymant C, Laeyendecker O, Grabowski MK, Hall M, Hudelson S, Piwowar-Manning E, McCauley M, Gamble T, Hosseinipour MC, Kumarasamy N, Hakim JG, Kumwenda J, Mills LA, Santos BR, Grinsztejn B, Pilotto JH, Chariyalertsak S, Makhema J, Chen YQ, Cohen MS, Fraser C, Eshleman SH. Zhang Y, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Jan 23;72(1):30-37. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz1247. Clin Infect Dis. 2021. PMID: 31922537 Free PMC article.