Open AccessHow are transgender women acquiring HIV? Insights from phylogenetic transmission clusters in San Francisco
Author(s) -
HongHa M. Truong,
Kara J. O’Keefe,
Sharon Pipkin,
Teri Liegler,
Susan Scheer,
Erin C. Wilson,
Willi McFarland
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
aids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.195
H-Index - 216
eISSN - 1473-5571
pISSN - 0269-9370
DOI - 10.1097/qad.0000000000002318
Subject(s) - transgender , transgender women , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , phylogenetic tree , transmission (telecommunications) , transgender person , medicine , virology , biology , gerontology , evolutionary biology , genetics , gender studies , men who have sex with men , sociology , computer science , telecommunications , gene , syphilis
We explored potential HIV transmission typologies that involve transgender women to obtain insights on sexual and needle-sharing networks as sources of HIV infection.