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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Hudson H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6944135 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
AIDS research and human retroviruses 20191024 1
We determined HIV-1 <i>pol</i> gene sequences from self-collected rectal swabs of HIV-positive young men who have sex with men and transgender women. HIV-1 <i>pol</i> was amplified from 39/96 (41%) rectal swabs, including 29/77 (38%) prevalent and 10/19 (53%) incident HIV-1 infections (<i>p</i> < .001). <i>Pol</i> did not amplify from rectal swabs from participants with plasma viral load <1,000 copies/mL. Each rectal swab-derived amplicon consensus sequence was most closely related to the paired ...[more]