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Objective To understand the epidemiological characteristics of one large HIV molecular transmission cluster in Jiaxing city,Zhejiang province,2017 in order to select those people under high-risk and providing basis for programs on prevention.Methods During 2017,newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS cases in this city were recruited.Plasma samples were collected from subjects,followed by RNA extraction,RT-PCR and nest-PCR for pol gene amplification,before being sequenced and aligned.Mega 6.0 software was used to construct phylogenetic tree,and Cytoscape 3.6.0 software was used to identify HIV molecular transmission clusters.Cases within the large transmission clusters were investigated,using a field-epidemiology-questionnaire.Data related to socio-demographics and previous sexual behaviors were collected and EpiData 3.0 and SPSS 20.0 software were used.Results In the large transmission cluster with subtype identified as CRF07_BC,in Jiaxing,2017,26 cases of the total 30 cases were investigated.A total of 80.8％ (21/26) could be identified as newly infected within the last two years and 30.8％(8/26) could be identified as newly infected within the last one year,including 22 cases infected locally.Among several infected cases who were at age 45 years or older,they admitted that they had experienced unprotected sexual contacts in local city for long time and having had more than 10 disclosed sexual contacts within the last two years at the local venues.Conclusions This molecular cluster had been formed and scaled up quickly in recent two years,it has played an important role in promoting and scaling up the HIV transmission.Three cases identificed as high risk played an importantrde role in scaling up this cluster.
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Objective To understand the characteristics on major strain subtypes of hepatitis C virus among HIV/HCV co-infected patients,so as to explore the molecular transmission clusters and related risk factors of HCV strains.Methods A total of 336 newly reported HIV-infected patients were diagnosed as HIV/HCV co-infection in Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture (Dehong)in 2016.We used Nested PCR to amplify CE 1 and NS5B genes among 318 samples with plasma levels above 200 μl,before using the combining phylogenetic tree and constructing molecular propagation network method to analyze the related data.Results A total of 267 HIV/HCV co-infection patients who had met the HCV genotyping requirements were screened the gene subtypes were diversified.Among these genotypes,proportions of 3b,6n,6u,1a,3a and other subtypes appeared as 32.6％ (87/267),18.4％ (49/267),15.7％(42/267),13.1％(35/267),11.2％(30/267) and 9.0％(24/267) respectively.Molecular transmission network of five major HCV genotypes was constructed with a clustering rate of 39.1％ (95/243).The clustering rate of subtype la was the highest,as 71.4％ (25/35).Results from the multivariate logistic regression showed that ethnic minorities other than the Yi and Jingpo (vs.the Han,OR=0.17,95％ CI:0.04-0.71),the married spouses (vs.the unmarried,OR=0.42,95％ CI:0.18-0.94),the 6n and 3a subtype (vs.the 3b subtype,OR=0.34,95％CI:0.12-0.95;OR=0.22,95％CI:0.05-0.93) were more difficult to form transmission clusters.However,the 6u and 1a subtype (vs.the 3b subtype,OR=3.10,95％CI:1.21-7.94;OR=4.00,95％CI:1.32-12.11) seemed more likely to form the transmission clusters.Conclusion Ethnicity,marital status and genetic subtypes were factors significantly associated with the formation of transmission clusters related to the major HCV gene subtypes among newly reported HIV/HCV co-infection in Dehong.
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Objective To understand the epidemiological characteristics of one large HIV molecular transmission cluster in Jiaxing city,Zhejiang province,2017 in order to select those people under high-risk and providing basis for programs on prevention.Methods During 2017,newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS cases in this city were recruited.Plasma samples were collected from subjects,followed by RNA extraction,RT-PCR and nest-PCR for pol gene amplification,before being sequenced and aligned.Mega 6.0 software was used to construct phylogenetic tree,and Cytoscape 3.6.0 software was used to identify HIV molecular transmission clusters.Cases within the large transmission clusters were investigated,using a field-epidemiology-questionnaire.Data related to socio-demographics and previous sexual behaviors were collected and EpiData 3.0 and SPSS 20.0 software were used.Results In the large transmission cluster with subtype identified as CRF07_BC,in Jiaxing,2017,26 cases of the total 30 cases were investigated.A total of 80.8％ (21/26) could be identified as newly infected within the last two years and 30.8％(8/26) could be identified as newly infected within the last one year,including 22 cases infected locally.Among several infected cases who were at age 45 years or older,they admitted that they had experienced unprotected sexual contacts in local city for long time and having had more than 10 disclosed sexual contacts within the last two years at the local venues.Conclusions This molecular cluster had been formed and scaled up quickly in recent two years,it has played an important role in promoting and scaling up the HIV transmission.Three cases identificed as high risk played an importantrde role in scaling up this cluster.
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Objective To understand the characteristics on major strain subtypes of hepatitis C virus among HIV/HCV co-infected patients,so as to explore the molecular transmission clusters and related risk factors of HCV strains.Methods A total of 336 newly reported HIV-infected patients were diagnosed as HIV/HCV co-infection in Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture (Dehong)in 2016.We used Nested PCR to amplify CE 1 and NS5B genes among 318 samples with plasma levels above 200 μl,before using the combining phylogenetic tree and constructing molecular propagation network method to analyze the related data.Results A total of 267 HIV/HCV co-infection patients who had met the HCV genotyping requirements were screened the gene subtypes were diversified.Among these genotypes,proportions of 3b,6n,6u,1a,3a and other subtypes appeared as 32.6％ (87/267),18.4％ (49/267),15.7％(42/267),13.1％(35/267),11.2％(30/267) and 9.0％(24/267) respectively.Molecular transmission network of five major HCV genotypes was constructed with a clustering rate of 39.1％ (95/243).The clustering rate of subtype la was the highest,as 71.4％ (25/35).Results from the multivariate logistic regression showed that ethnic minorities other than the Yi and Jingpo (vs.the Han,OR=0.17,95％ CI:0.04-0.71),the married spouses (vs.the unmarried,OR=0.42,95％ CI:0.18-0.94),the 6n and 3a subtype (vs.the 3b subtype,OR=0.34,95％CI:0.12-0.95;OR=0.22,95％CI:0.05-0.93) were more difficult to form transmission clusters.However,the 6u and 1a subtype (vs.the 3b subtype,OR=3.10,95％CI:1.21-7.94;OR=4.00,95％CI:1.32-12.11) seemed more likely to form the transmission clusters.Conclusion Ethnicity,marital status and genetic subtypes were factors significantly associated with the formation of transmission clusters related to the major HCV gene subtypes among newly reported HIV/HCV co-infection in Dehong.