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HIV infection is spreading dramatically to children in our geographical area. Children are still in a fortunate position in that they represent only 2% of the total AIDS cases in Europe and North America, and 20%-30% in Africa and Asia. In contrast, in our country, 93% of the total number of declared AIDS cases occur in children. This represents a new, stränge and obscure type of epidemiology. The outbreak of the epidemic in all districts of the country between 1990 and 1995, involved children born during 1988 and 1989 in 81% of the cases; the source of infection in 69% of the patients is unknown. The peculiar epidemiology of AIDS in our country motivated our Cluster analysis of the HIV subtypes responsible for the infection in our region.
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Serban, M., Gürtler, L., Costa, R., Cucuruz, M., Jienaru, S., Schramm, W. (1997). HIV Infection in the Western Part of Romania. In: 26. Hämophilie-Symposion 1995. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60418-8_52
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