PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - J J Potterat
AU  - L Phillips-Plummer
AU  - S Q Muth
AU  - R B Rothenberg
AU  - D E Woodhouse
AU  - T S Maldonado-Long
AU  - H P Zimmerman
AU  - J B Muth
TI  - Risk network structure in the early epidemic phase of HIV transmission in Colorado Springs
AID  - 10.1136/sti.78.suppl_1.i159
DP  - 2002 Apr 01
TA  - Sexually Transmitted Infections
PG  - i159--i163
VI  - 78
IP  - suppl 1
4099  - http://sti.bmj.com/content/78/suppl_1/i159.short
4100  - http://sti.bmj.com/content/78/suppl_1/i159.full
SO  - Sex Transm Infect2002 Apr 01; 78
AB  - This study describes the risk network structure of persons with HIV infection during its early epidemic phase in Colorado Springs, USA, using analysis of community-wide HIV/AIDS contact tracing records (sexual and injecting drug partners) from 1985 to 1999. Paired partner information from other STD/HIV programme records was used to augment network connections. Analyses were conducted with and without this supplemental information. The results suggest that a combined dendritic and cyclic structural network pattern is associated with low to moderate HIV propagation in Colorado Springs, and may account for the absence of intense propagation of the virus.