Using HIV Networks to Inform Real Time Prevention Interventions

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 9; no. 6; p. e98443
• Main Authors: Little, Susan J., Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei L., Anderson, Christy M., Young, Jason A., Wertheim, Joel O., Mehta, Sanjay R., May, Susanne, Smith, Davey M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 05.06.2014; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis; Antiretroviral agents; Antiretroviral drugs; Antiretroviral therapy; Biology and Life Sciences; California; Cluster Analysis; Data processing; Disease transmission; Drug resistance; Epidemics; Female; Health risks; HIV; HIV Infections - diagnosis; HIV Infections - prevention & control; HIV Infections - transmission; HIV tests; HIV-1 - genetics; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Male; Mass Screening; Medicine and health sciences; Middle Aged; pol Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus - genetics; Population Surveillance; Prevention; Risk; Risk taking; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Sexual Behavior; Sexual Partners; Sexually transmitted diseases; STD; Target recognition; Young Adult; California; La Jolla California; United States > US

To reconstruct the local HIV-1 transmission network from 1996 to 2011 and use network data to evaluate and guide efforts to interrupt transmission. HIV-1 pol sequence data were analyzed to infer the local transmission network. We analyzed HIV-1 pol sequence data to infer a partial local transmission...