Ethical considerations in global HIV phylogenetic research

CEM Coltart, A Hoppe, M Parker, L Dawson… - The lancet HIV, 2018 - thelancet.com
Phylogenetic analysis of pathogens is an increasingly powerful way to reduce the spread of
epidemics, including HIV. As a result, phylogenetic approaches are becoming embedded in …

Growth of HIV-1 molecular transmission clusters in New York City

JO Wertheim, B Murrell, SR Mehta… - The Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background HIV-1 genetic sequences can be used to infer viral transmission history and
dynamics. Throughout the United States, HIV-1 sequences from drug resistance testing are …

Quantifying the fitness cost of HIV-1 drug resistance mutations through phylodynamics

D Kühnert, R Kouyos, G Shirreff, J Pečerska… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Drug resistant HIV is a major threat to the long-term efficacy of antiretroviral treatment.
Around 10% of ART-naïve patients in Europe are infected with drug-resistant HIV type 1 …

Recent and rapid transmission of HIV among people who inject drugs in Scotland revealed through phylogenetic analysis

M Ragonnet-Cronin, C Jackson… - The Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Harm reduction has dramatically reduced HIV incidence among people who
inject drugs (PWID). In Glasgow, Scotland,< 10 infections/year have been diagnosed among …

Non-disclosed men who have sex with men in UK HIV transmission networks: phylogenetic analysis of surveillance data

M Ragonnet-Cronin, S Hué, EB Hodcroft, A Tostevin… - The lancet HIV, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Patients who do not disclose their sexuality, including men who do not disclose
same-sex behaviour, are difficult to characterise through traditional epidemiological …

HIV-genetic diversity and drug resistance transmission clusters in Gondar, Northern Ethiopia, 2003-2013

DA Arimide, A Abebe, Y Kebede, F Adugna, T Tilahun… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background The HIV-1 epidemic in Ethiopia has been shown to be dominated by two
phylogenetically distinct subtype C clades, the Ethiopian (C'-ET) and East African (C-EA) …

Complex patterns of Hepatitis-C virus longitudinal clustering in a high-risk population

R Rose, SL Lamers, G Massaccesi, W Osburn… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
We investigated longitudinal viral clustering among and within subjects in a highly
networked cohort of people who inject drugs (PWID). All subjects had estimated dates of …

New challenges in HIV research: combining phylogenetic cluster size and epidemiological data

N Parveen, EEM Moodie, J Cox, G Lambert… - Epidemiologic …, 2018 - degruyter.com
An exciting new direction in HIV research is centered on using molecular phylogenetics to
understand the social and behavioral drivers of HIV transmission. SPOT was an intervention …

Molecular evolution methods to study HIV-1 epidemics

JA Patino-Galindo, F González-Candelas - Future Virology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Nucleotide sequences of HIV isolates are obtained routinely to evaluate the presence of
resistance mutations to antiretroviral drugs. But, beyond their clinical use, these and other …

What proportion of HIV-infected foreign-born individuals in the United States have been infected after immigrating to the United States?

JT Herbeck, RP Kerani, AFY Poon - JAIDS Journal of Acquired …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
4. Valverde EE, Oster AM, Xu S et al. HIV transmission dynamics among foreign-born
persons in the United States. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2017; 76: 445–452. 5. Tamura K …