HIV INFECTION: USE OF HIV GENOTYPING AND PHYLOGENETIC METHODS DURING AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION

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2
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2015

A. Lopatukhin (1), N. Ladnaya (1), L. Kirillova (2), D. Kireev (1), L. Nikotina (2), O. Shchepinova (2), T. Konnova2 1 -Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Russian Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare, Moscow 2 -Lipetsk Regional Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS and Infectious Diseases

HIV genotyping and phylogenetic methods were used in the epidemiological investigation of a case of HIV infection in a child in the Lipetsk Region. The risk of HIV infection in the child receiving healthcare was ruled out with a high degree of probability; the virus was concluded to have been transmitted from an HIV-infected mother to her child. It is expedient to use the capabilities of the phylogenetic assay to investigate HIV infection cases that are likely to be associated with healthcare.
Keywords: 
epidemiological investigation
HIV
genotyping
phylogenetic assay

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