HIV-1 outbreak among injecting drug users in Greece, 2011: a preliminary report

Eurosurveillance - Tập 16 Số 36 - 2011
Dimitrios Paraskevis1, Georgios K. Nikolopoulos2, Chrissa Tsiara2, Dimitra Paraskeva2, Anastasia Antoniadou3, Marios Lazanas4, P. Gargalianos5, Mina Psychogiou6,1, Meni Malliori7, Jenny Kremastinou2, Angelos Hatzakis1
1National Retrovirus Reference Center, Department of Hygiene Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
2Hellenic Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Athens, Greece
34th Department of Internal Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Attikon Hospital, Athens, Greece
43rd Department of Internal Medicine, Hellenic Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece
51st Department of Internal Medicine, Athens General Hospital 'G. Gennimatas', Athens, Greece
61st Department of Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Laiko Hospital, Athens, Greece
7Organization Against Drugs, OKANA, Athens, Greece

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A significant increase (more than 10-fold) in the number of newly diagnosed HIV-1 infections among injecting drug users (IDUs) was observed in Greece during the first seven months of 2011. Molecular epidemiology results revealed that a large proportion (96%) of HIV-1 sequences from IDUs sampled in 2011 fall within phylogenetic clusters suggesting high levels of transmission networking. Cases originated from diverse places outside Greece supporting the potential role of immigrant IDUs in the initiation of this outbreak.

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