Molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 in Hungary: an evolving contact zone of colliding virus subtypes
Levente Zsichla, Lilla Adravecz, Dalma Müller, Philippe Lemey, Áron Lakatos, Eszter Ari, Katharina Kusejko, Roger Kouyos, János Szlávik, Botond Lakatos, Éva Áy, Viktor Müller · 2025
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Levente Zsichla and ten co-authors charted the HIV epidemic in Hungary from viral gene sequences, in this 2025 study. Hungary sits where three major virus subtypes meet, yet its epidemic had never been mapped this way. The team analyzed samples from 1,120 patients collected between 2008 and 2024, set against more than two thousand comparison sequences from abroad.
Subtype B still dominates, but other forms have climbed since 2014 and reached about forty-one percent of cases by 2024. One in six recent diagnoses fell into a single fast-moving cluster. Most spread is domestic, above all among men who have sex with men, with imports tied mainly to Europe. The authors urge prevention aimed at the busiest clusters.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Levente Zsichla, Lilla Adravecz, Dalma Müller, Philippe Lemey, Áron Lakatos, Eszter Ari, Katharina Kusejko, Roger Kouyos, János Szlávik, Botond Lakatos, Éva Áy, Viktor Müller |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 64 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |