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An epidemiological investigation to reconstruct a probable human immunodeficiency virus -1 transmission network: a case report
BACKGROUND: Recently published studies have highlighted the importance of phylogenetic and phylodynamic analyses in supporting epidemiological investigations to reconstruct the transmission network of human immunodeficiency virus. Here, we report a case of sexual transmission of human immunodeficien...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4630910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26527158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0717-2 |
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author | Serafino, Sara Cella, Eleonora Montagna, Claudia Cavallari, Eugenio Nelson Vittozzi, Pietro Lo Presti, Alessandra Giovanetti, Marta Mazzuti, Laura Turriziani, Ombretta Ceccarelli, Giancarlo d’Ettorre, Gabriella Vullo, Vincenzo Ciccozzi, Massimo |
author_facet | Serafino, Sara Cella, Eleonora Montagna, Claudia Cavallari, Eugenio Nelson Vittozzi, Pietro Lo Presti, Alessandra Giovanetti, Marta Mazzuti, Laura Turriziani, Ombretta Ceccarelli, Giancarlo d’Ettorre, Gabriella Vullo, Vincenzo Ciccozzi, Massimo |
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description | BACKGROUND: Recently published studies have highlighted the importance of phylogenetic and phylodynamic analyses in supporting epidemiological investigations to reconstruct the transmission network of human immunodeficiency virus. Here, we report a case of sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 between a man and a woman that marks once more the importance of a tightened collaboration between phylogeny and epidemiology. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype B transmission in a stable Caucasian heterosexual couple. The man was 30 years old and the woman was 21 years old at the time of their presentation to the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases of the University of Rome “Sapienza”. The couple reported a history of drug abuse. CONCLUSION: Phylogenetic analysis is a powerful technique that if properly used can prove valuable in research investigations. In the case presented here, a phylogenetic analysis alongside epidemiological evidence allowed us to determine the most probable source of the human immunodeficiency virus infection. The dated tree allowed us to date the transmission event, the time point, and the direction of transmission based on the phylogeny, which agreed with the presumptive time of infection determined from clinical history-taking. |
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spelling | pubmed-46309102015-11-04 An epidemiological investigation to reconstruct a probable human immunodeficiency virus -1 transmission network: a case report Serafino, Sara Cella, Eleonora Montagna, Claudia Cavallari, Eugenio Nelson Vittozzi, Pietro Lo Presti, Alessandra Giovanetti, Marta Mazzuti, Laura Turriziani, Ombretta Ceccarelli, Giancarlo d’Ettorre, Gabriella Vullo, Vincenzo Ciccozzi, Massimo J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Recently published studies have highlighted the importance of phylogenetic and phylodynamic analyses in supporting epidemiological investigations to reconstruct the transmission network of human immunodeficiency virus. Here, we report a case of sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 between a man and a woman that marks once more the importance of a tightened collaboration between phylogeny and epidemiology. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype B transmission in a stable Caucasian heterosexual couple. The man was 30 years old and the woman was 21 years old at the time of their presentation to the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases of the University of Rome “Sapienza”. The couple reported a history of drug abuse. CONCLUSION: Phylogenetic analysis is a powerful technique that if properly used can prove valuable in research investigations. In the case presented here, a phylogenetic analysis alongside epidemiological evidence allowed us to determine the most probable source of the human immunodeficiency virus infection. The dated tree allowed us to date the transmission event, the time point, and the direction of transmission based on the phylogeny, which agreed with the presumptive time of infection determined from clinical history-taking. BioMed Central 2015-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4630910/ /pubmed/26527158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0717-2 Text en © Serafino et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Serafino, Sara Cella, Eleonora Montagna, Claudia Cavallari, Eugenio Nelson Vittozzi, Pietro Lo Presti, Alessandra Giovanetti, Marta Mazzuti, Laura Turriziani, Ombretta Ceccarelli, Giancarlo d’Ettorre, Gabriella Vullo, Vincenzo Ciccozzi, Massimo An epidemiological investigation to reconstruct a probable human immunodeficiency virus -1 transmission network: a case report |
title | An epidemiological investigation to reconstruct a probable human immunodeficiency virus -1 transmission network: a case report |
title_full | An epidemiological investigation to reconstruct a probable human immunodeficiency virus -1 transmission network: a case report |
title_fullStr | An epidemiological investigation to reconstruct a probable human immunodeficiency virus -1 transmission network: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | An epidemiological investigation to reconstruct a probable human immunodeficiency virus -1 transmission network: a case report |
title_short | An epidemiological investigation to reconstruct a probable human immunodeficiency virus -1 transmission network: a case report |
title_sort | epidemiological investigation to reconstruct a probable human immunodeficiency virus -1 transmission network: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4630910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26527158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0717-2 |
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