{"id":972,"date":"2016-06-13T10:53:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T10:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virologyhighlights.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2018-05-25T08:31:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T08:31:48","slug":"introduction-to-hiv-1-subtype-b-traces-of-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elsevierblogs.com\/virology\/introduction-to-hiv-1-subtype-b-traces-of-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to \u201cHIV-1 subtype B: Traces of a pandemic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0042682216301039\">Read the full article on ScienceDirect.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Text by Michael Emerman<\/em> (Editor-in-Chief<em>, Virology<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The HIV-1 pandemic is now over 30 years old and has claimed over 35 million lives.\u00a0 Since its origins in chimpanzees, HIV-1 has diversified into several different subtypes, of which the one that has disseminated most widely worldwide is the one called \u201csubtype B.\u201d\u00a0 The review,\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0042682216301039\" target=\"_blank\">HIV-1 subtype B: Traces of a pandemic<\/a><\/em> published in the \u00a0August 2016 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/00426822\/495\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Virology<\/em><\/a> describes the evidence based on viral sequence data of how subtype B emerged in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, went to the America\u2019s in the 1960\u2019s and then subsequently spread around the world establishing connected epidemics on different continents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-973\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elsevierblogs.com\/virology\/wp-content\/uploads\/VH_Review.png\" alt=\"VH_Review\" width=\"432\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elsevierblogs.com\/virology\/wp-content\/uploads\/VH_Review.png 3333w, https:\/\/www.elsevierblogs.com\/virology\/wp-content\/uploads\/VH_Review-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.elsevierblogs.com\/virology\/wp-content\/uploads\/VH_Review-1024x641.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Image legend<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Estimated spatial dynamics of HIV-1 Subtype B around the world. Blue lines represent the main dissemination routes of HIV-1 subtype B pandemic form and the main disease epicenters. The epidemic starts in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Africa). Orange lines represent the direction of the B non-pandemic lineage dissemination. Green regions demarcate the countries where a specific lineage of the HIV-1 subtype B is circulating.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h3><strong>About the research<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0042682216301039\" target=\"_blank\">HIV-1 subtype B: Traces of a pandemic<\/a><br \/>\nDennis Maletich Junqueira, Sabrina Esteves de Matos Almeidaa<br \/>\n<em>Virology<\/em>, Volume 495, August 2016, Pages 173\u2013184<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article on ScienceDirect. 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