| molecular epidemiology: hiv-1 and hcv sequences from libyan outbreak. | in 1998, outbreaks of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (hiv-1) and hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection were reported in children attending al-fateh hospital in benghazi, libya. here we use molecular phylogenetic techniques to analyse new virus sequences from these outbreaks. we find that the hiv-1 and hcv strains were already circulating and prevalent in this hospital and its environs before the arrival in march 1998 of the foreign medical staff (five bulgarian nurses and a palestinian doctor) ... | 2006 | 17171825 |