Unusual cluster of HIV type 1 dual infections in Groningen, The Netherlands

AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2011 Apr;27(4):429-33. doi: 10.1089/aid.2010.0175. Epub 2010 Nov 18.

Abstract

In 2007, 14 Dutch men having sex with men (MSM) filed a criminal case against three other men, accusing them of administering sedative drugs, sexual abuse, and deliberate subcutaneous injections with HIV-1-infected blood. Medical files showed that 9 of 17 men presented with an acute HIV-1 infection syndrome during 2006-2007. Two men were not infected with HIV. Analysis of viral strains in the 12 MSM and the three alleged donors showed that one donor and six recipients were double infected with two distinct HIV-1 subtype B strains, while another five recipients and one donor were single infected with either strain. Two men were infected with unrelated strains. The finding of multiple double infections with very similar HIV-1 strains is without precedent.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cluster Analysis
  • Genotype
  • HIV Infections / epidemiology*
  • HIV Infections / virology*
  • HIV Reverse Transcriptase / genetics
  • HIV-1 / classification*
  • HIV-1 / genetics
  • HIV-1 / isolation & purification*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Netherlands / epidemiology
  • Phylogeny
  • RNA, Viral / genetics*
  • RNA, Viral / isolation & purification
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • env Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus / genetics

Substances

  • RNA, Viral
  • env Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
  • reverse transcriptase, Human immunodeficiency virus 1
  • HIV Reverse Transcriptase