Evangelia Georgia Kostaki, Sotirios Roussos, Anastasia Maria Kefala, Stefanos Limnaios, Mina Psichogiou, Eleni Papachristou, Georgios Nikolopoulos, Eleni Flountzi, Samuel R Friedman, Pagona Lagiou, Angelos Hatzakis, Vana Sypsa, Gkikas Magiorkinis, Apostolos Beloukas, Dimitrios Paraskevis
BACKGROUND: New diagnoses of HIV-1 infection among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Athens, Greece, saw a significant increase in 2011 and a subsequent decline after 2013. Despite this, ongoing HIV-1 transmission persisted from 2014 to 2020 within this population. Our objective was to estimate the time of infection for PWID in Athens following the HIV-1 outbreak, explore the patterns of HIV-1 dispersal over time, and determine the duration from infection to diagnosis. METHODS: Time from HIV-1 infection to diagnosis was estimated for 844 individuals infected within 4 PWID-specific clusters and for 8 PWID infected with sub-subtype A6 diagnosed during 2010-2019...
April 23, 2024: Infection, Genetics and Evolution