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Male Circumcision and the Epidemic Emergence of HIV-2 in West Africa

BACKGROUND: Epidemic HIV-2 (groups A and B) emerged in humans circa 1930–40. Its closest ancestors are SIVsmm infecting sooty mangabeys from southwestern Côte d'Ivoire. The earliest large-scale serological surveys of HIV-2 in West Africa (1985–91) show a patchy spread. Côte d'Ivoire and Gu...

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Autores principales: Sousa, João Dinis, Temudo, Marina Padrão, Hewlett, Barry Stephen, Camacho, Ricardo Jorge, Müller, Viktor, Vandamme, Anne-Mieke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5142780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27926927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166805