HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan outbreak

Tulio de Oliveira (), 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 and Benghazi Study Group
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Tulio de Oliveira: University of Oxford
Oliver G. Pybus: University of Oxford
Andrew Rambaut: Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh
Marco Salemi: College of Medicine, University of Florida
Sharon Cassol: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria
Massimo Ciccozzi: Istituto Superiore di Sanitá
Giovanni Rezza: Istituto Superiore di Sanitá
Guido Castelli Gattinara: Bambino Gesú Children's Hospital
Roberta D'Arrigo: Spallanzani Institute for Infectious Diseases
Massimo Amicosante: University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Luc Perrin: Geneva University Hospital
Vittorio Colizzi: University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Carlo Federico Perno: University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Benghazi Study Group: For full listing, see supplementary information

Nature, 2006, vol. 444, issue 7121, 836-837

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2006
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