[The molecular epidemiological characteristics of the HIV-1 variants circulating among injection drug addicts on the territory of the CIS Nations]. / Molekuliarno-épidemiologicheskie osobennosti variantov VICh-1, tsirkuliruiushchikh sredi shpritsevykh narkomanov na territorii SNG.

ABSTRACT

Different strains of HIV-1, circulating among drug addicts introducing drugs intravenously and detected on the territories of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, have been characterized by the methods of the comparative analysis of genetic sequences of different variants of HIV (gene typing) and the study of the immunological properties of autoimmune sera (serotyping).