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SINGLE
SOURCE
OUTBREAK
OF PEDIATRIC
AIDS
Other researchers have used molecular
epidemiology to find a single source of HIV for an outbreak of pediatric AIDS
cases in Russia. In that country between 1988 and 1990, over 250 children were
infected with HIV after exposure to non-sterile needles. By June 1994, 43 of these
children had died of AIDS (Irova et al., 1993). In a recent report on 22 of these
children from two hospitals, 12 had developed AIDS. Molecular analysis of HIV
isolates from all 22 children showed the isolates to be very closely related,
confirming epidemiological data that these two outbreaks resulted from a single
source: an infant born to an HIV-infected mother whose husband was infected in
central Africa (Bobkov et al., 1994).
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