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SUBMITTER: Grossman Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6080110 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grossman Zehava Z Rico Sheryl-Vi SV Cone Katherine K Shao Wei W Rehm Catherine C Jones Sara S Bozzi Giorgio G Dean Sophie S Dewar Robin R Rehman Tauseef T Purdy Julia J Hadigan Colleen C Pau Alice K AK Maldarelli Frank F
AIDS research and human retroviruses 20180801 8
The presence of non-B HIV subtypes in the USA has been documented during the epidemic, although the timing of early introductions of different subtypes remains uncertain. Subtype C, the most common HIV variant worldwide, was first reported in the USA in 1996-97, after subtype C had expanded greatly in sub-Saharan Africa. In this study, we report a patient with subtype C infection acquired by mother-to-child transmission, born in the USA in 1990 to a Washington, D.C. resident who never traveled o ...[more]