New York City HIV Superbug: Fear or Fear Not?

Overview

Journal Retrovirology

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2005 Mar 4

PMID 15743534

Citations 2

Authors

Stephen M Smith

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Abstract

On February 11, 2005, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced that a city resident had recently been infected with a multi-drug resistant form of HIV and rapidly progressed to AIDS. The Health Commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, called for increased vigilance against this new strain. Is this situation an emerging crisis or simply an unusual case report of rapid HIV progression?

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