| an hiv type 1 subtype a strain of low genetic diversity continues to spread among injecting drug users in russia: study of the new local outbreaks in moscow and irkutsk. | an explosive epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (hiv-1) has been documented among injecting drug users (idus) in the former soviet union republics. in 1999, the two largest local idu outbreaks of hiv-1 infection in the russian federation were registered in the moscow and irkutsk regions, where 13,004 hiv-1 cases were identified (44% of the total number of hiv-1 infections in russia in 1999). to study the prevailing genetic variants and to estimate the genetic diversity of hiv-1 in t ... | 2001 | 11177409 |