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Newly Discovered Archival Data Show Coincidence of a Peak of Sexually Transmitted Diseases with the Early Epicenter of Pandemic HIV-1
To which extent STDs facilitated HIV-1 adaptation to humans, sparking the pandemic, is still unknown. We searched colonial medical records from 1906–1958 for Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, which was the initial epicenter of pandemic HIV-1, compiling counts of treated STD cases in both Africans and Eur...
Autores principales: | Sousa, João Dinis, Havik, Philip J., Müller, Viktor, Vandamme, Anne-Mieke |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8472979/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34578283 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13091701 |
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