Open AccessAscertaining the 2004–2006 HIV type 1 CRF07_BC outbreak among injecting drug users in Taiwan
Author(s) -
YingHen Hsieh
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2013.01.002
Subject(s) - outbreak , demography , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , harm reduction , incidence (geometry) , virology , mathematics , sociology , geometry
To ascertain the explosive 2004-2006 outbreak of HIV-1 CRF07_BC among intravenous drug users (IDU) in Taiwan, which more than doubled the total number of reported HIV cases in less than 3 years, resulting in a 45-fold increase in cumulative IDU/HIV cases and a 40-fold increase in previously seldom-reported female IDU/HIV cases.
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