Extensive and complex HIV-1 recombination between B', C and CRF01_AE among IDUs in south-east Asia.

Objective: To investigate the subtype characterization of HIV-1 among IDUs in northern Myanmar.

Design: A molecular epidemiological investigation was conducted among IDUs in Laza and Maizayang cities of northern Myanmar.

Methods: A total of 83 HIV-1-positive serums were collected from consenting IDUs during June to August 2009.

Expression of syncytin in leukemia and lymphoma cells.

Syncytin is a placenta-specific protein and generally believed to play a pivotal role in syncytiotrophoblast morphogenesis. In this study, transcripts of this gene were quantified by real-time RT-PCR and the translated products were measured by an indirect immunofluorescence assay. Results showed that syncytin was found to be expressed in all nine leukemia and lymphoma cell lines studied albeit at different levels and in 43 peripheral blood samples of 57 leukemia or lymphoma patients.

Mitochondrial genome evidence reveals successful Late Paleolithic settlement on the Tibetan Plateau.

Due to its numerous environmental extremes, the Tibetan Plateau--the world's highest plateau--is one of the most challenging areas of modern human settlement. Archaeological evidence dates the earliest settlement on the plateau to the Late Paleolithic, while previous genetic studies have traced the colonization event(s) to no earlier than the Neolithic. To explore whether the genetic continuity on the plateau has an exclusively Neolithic time depth, we studied mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome variation within 6 regional Tibetan populations sampled from Tibet and neighboring areas.

Human immunodeficiency virus-1 genotypic drug resistance among volunteer blood donors in Yunnan, China.

Background: Drug resistance profiles of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) in treatment-naïve infections have been reported in developed countries. However, little is known in developing countries, including China, especially in treatment-naïve volunteer blood donors.

Study Design And Methods: Fifty-two HIV-1-positive samples of blood donors were collected from 2005 to 2006 in Yunnan, China.

[Study on the drug resistance situation among recently infected HIV-1 patients in Dehong].

Objective: To study the HIV-1 drug resistance (DR) situation among newly infected persons in Dehong.

Methods: 1048 HIV-1 positive blood samples from July to December in 2006 from Dehong prefecture of Yunnan, were collected. HIV drug resistance were tested using TruGene in newly infected people that were distinguished with BED-CEIA, while the subtype were determined with phylogenetic analysis using a set of reference sequences available on the Los Alamos Database.

A multi-Chinese blood center study testing serologic-negative donor samples for hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus with nucleic acid testing.

Background: A multi-blood center study was conducted to evaluate a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) multiplex nucleic acid testing (NAT) donor screening test and to determine the residual risk for HIV-1 and HCV infection.

Study Design And Methods: A commercially available HIV-1 and HCV assay (Procleix, Chiron Corp.) was used for simultaneous detection of HIV-1 RNA and HCV RNA on 89,647 unlinked donor samples.