Social and Genetic Networks of HIV-1 Transmission in New York City

• Published in: PLoS pathogens Vol. 13; no. 1; p. e1006000
• Main Authors: Wertheim, Joel O., Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei L., Forgione, Lisa A., Mehta, Sanjay R., Murrell, Ben, Shah, Sharmila, Smith, Davey M., Scheffler, Konrad, Torian, Lucia V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.01.2017; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Adult; AIDS; Algorithms; Biology and Life Sciences; Computer and Information Sciences; Contact Tracing; Demography; Disease transmission; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Female; Funding; Genetic aspects; Genotype; Health aspects; Health surveillance; HIV; HIV infections; HIV Infections - epidemiology; HIV Infections - transmission; HIV Infections - virology; HIV-1 - genetics; HIV-1 - isolation & purification; HIV-1 - physiology; Homosexuality, Male; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Hygiene; Injection; Lentivirus; Male; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mens health; New York City - epidemiology; Pathogens; People and Places; Public Health; Retroviridae; Risk; Risk factors; Sexual Behavior; Sexual Partners; Sexually transmitted diseases; Sexually Transmitted Diseases - epidemiology; Sexually Transmitted Diseases - transmission; Sexually Transmitted Diseases - virology; STD; Studies; United States; New York; United States > US; California

Sexually transmitted infections spread across contact networks. Partner elicitation and notification are commonly used public health tools to identify, notify, and offer testing to persons linked in these contact networks. For HIV-1, a rapidly evolving pathogen with low per-contact transmission rate...