| the hiv type 1 epidemic in belarus: predominance of eastern european subtype a strains and circulation of subtype b viruses. | to study the molecular epidemiology of hiv-1 in belarus, where the rapid spread of hiv-1 has been registered since 1996, we obtained hiv-1 sequences from 30 individuals living in five cities in both the main geographic areas of the epidemic (gomel and minsk regions) and territories where spreading of the epidemic remains limited (grodno region). analysis of env v3 and gag p17/p24 sequences demonstrated that infections in all 12 injecting drug users and 14 of 18 individuals infected through sexua ... | 2005 | 16218809 |