The earliest cases of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 group M in Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda and Burundi and the origin of acquired immune deficiency syndrome

Authors
Vangroenweghe, D
Citation
D. Vangroenweghe, The earliest cases of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 group M in Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda and Burundi and the origin of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, PHI T ROY B, 356(1410), 2001, pp. 923-925
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary,"Experimental Biology
Journal title
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ISSN journal
09628436 → ACNP
Volume
356
Issue
1410
Year of publication
2001
Pages
923 - 925
Database
ISI
SICI code
0962-8436(20010629)356:1410<923:TECOHI>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
The early cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and human immunodefi ciency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in the 1960s and 1970s in Congo-Kinsh asa (Zaire), Rwanda and Burundi are reviewed These countries appear to be t he source of the HIV-1 group M epidemic, which then spread outwards to neig hbouring Tanzania and Uganda in the east, and Congo-Brazzaville in the west . Further spread to Haiti and onwards to the USA can be explained by the hu ndreds of single men from Haiti who participated in the UNESCO educational programme in the Congo between 1960 and 1975.