@article {1140,
	title = {The rate of epidemiological and virological changes during the transition from nascent to concentrated HIV epidemic stage in the former Soviet Union countries.},
	journal = {AIDS research and human retroviruses},
	volume = {23},
	year = {2007},
	month = {2007 Feb},
	pages = {183-92},
	abstract = {The rate of processes accompanying the transition of the HIV-1 epidemic from nascent stage to concentrated one in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) during intravenous drug user (IDU)-associated HIV infection outbreaks in 1994-1999 has not been analyzed. To define the rates, we studied susceptible populations and circulating viruses before, during, and after the outbreaks. Our findings included the following: (1) the pattern of high HIV-1 genetic diversity characteristic of the nascent epidemic changed to a concentrated one within 1 year in St. Petersburg and in Moscow; (2) different FSU regions were at different stages of the HIV-1 epidemic in 1994-1996; (3) the change of serotypic patterns characteristic of different stages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic for the non-IDU risk group occurred within 1 year in Moscow, suggesting an extremely high rate of IDU-associated epidemic pattern distributions in regions and susceptible populations in the FSU.},
	keywords = {Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Disease Outbreaks, Female, Genetic Variation, HIV Seropositivity, HIV Seroprevalence, HIV-1, Humans, Male, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Risk Factors, Russia, Substance Abuse, Intravenous},
	issn = {0889-2229},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03149.x},
	author = {Nabatov, Alexey A and Masharsky, Alexey E and Verevochkin, Sergei V and Emelyanov, Alexander V and Lukashov, Vladimir V and Heimer, Robert and Ryder, Robert W and Goudsmit, Jaap and Kozlov, Andrei P}
}
