Epidemiology reveals Zhaotong City as the hub of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 transmission from the Yunnan province to other regions in China

The Yunnan province in China has a high incidence of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection. Zhaotong City is located in the Yunnan province, a neglected 'important region'. In this study, we evaluated the unique molecular epidemiological characteristics of HIV-1 infection in Zhaotong City. We collected 305 serum samples from HIV-infected patients in Zhaotong City between May 2015 and April 2016. A total of 122 samples were selected for HIV-1 gag-pol gene amplification, of which 88 were successfully amplified and sequenced for phylogenetic and phylogeographic analysis. Circulating recombinant forms 07_BC (CRF07_BC, 23 cases, 26.14 %) and CRF08_BC (49 cases, 55.68 %) were the predominant subtypes; the high proportions of these two subtypes differed from those elsewhere in the Yunnan province. The other subtypes were CRF01_AE (11 cases, 12.5 %), B (one case, 1.14 %) and unique recombinant forms (four cases, 4.55 %). Phylogeographic analysis of the CRF07_BC and CRF08_BC subtype strains revealed that Zhaotong was one of the regions in which CRF07_BC and CRF08_BC entered initially. The CRF08_BC strain originated from this region closer to the 'root' position of the phylogenetic tree. Thus, Zhaotong City may have been an important channel in the transmission route of HIV-1 from Yunnan to other parts of the country. Based on this unique distribution of HIV-1 subtypes in Zhaotong City, the epidemic outbreak in this area may have played an important role in the spread of CRF07_BC and CRF08_BC subtypes.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

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2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:98

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The Journal of general virology - 98(2017), 12 vom: 02. Dez., Seite 3093-3100

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ren, Li [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Bingbui [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Kunmei [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Pan [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Shiyi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Xia, Xueshan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Kunhua [VerfasserIn]

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Genetics
Human immunodeficiency virus 1
Journal Article
Molecular epidemiology
Virus classification

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Date Revised 08.01.2020

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1099/jgv.0.000961

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NLM277589312