RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Risk network structure in the early epidemic phase of HIV transmission in Colorado Springs
JF Sexually Transmitted Infections
JO Sex Transm Infect
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP i159
OP i163
DO 10.1136/sti.78.suppl_1.i159
VO 78
IS suppl 1
A1 J J Potterat
A1 L Phillips-Plummer
A1 S Q Muth
A1 R B Rothenberg
A1 D E Woodhouse
A1 T S Maldonado-Long
A1 H P Zimmerman
A1 J B Muth
YR 2002
UL http://sti.bmj.com/content/78/suppl_1/i159.abstract
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.