European doctors found out that a new dangerous strain of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) began to spread in the Netherlands (HIV), which received all the existing types of HIV in danger and contagious, the press service of Oxford University said.
Our discovery emphasizes the need to comply with WHO recommendations to conduct regular HIV testing among vulnerable categories of the population. This will not only save a large number of immunodeficiency virus liveliers, but will allow to prevent the transfer of new variations of this pathogen, “says the words of Professor Oxford University of Christoph Fraser TASS.
European biologists have discovered the first example of the appearance of such variation of the immunodeficiency virus during the study of blood samples of participants of the international project Beehive. 17 patients were carriers of the same embodiment of the virus of immunodeficiency, which was noticeably different on the set of mutations and behavior from other types of HIV. This manifested that the concentration of viral particles in the body of the carrier of the new form of HIV, which received the name VB was five times higher than the norm, and the immunity of patients was twice as fast as possible. In fact, all media of this variation of the virus, 15 out of 17 research participants, lived in the territory of the Netherlands. This observation forced scientists to collect blood samples from several hundred inhabitants of Holland, infected HIV in recent or distant past, and decipher the genomes of their viruses. It turned out that at once two hundred patients were carriers of VB variant.
Detailed study of genomes of different samples of this form of the virus showed that this version of HIV began to spread through the Netherlands in the late 1980s, but its distribution in the country slowed down until reasons in 2010. The subsequent study of blood samples of HIV-infected people will show whether this variation of the virus has managed to penetrate other countries in Europe and other regions of the world, the authors of the discovery were summed up.
According to WHO, the number of meduod deficiency media on Earth is about 37.7 million people, more than 67% of which live in various African states. The number of patients is constantly growing, which is especially characteristic of the poorest states of the South Africa, a significant proportion of population of which is HIV carriers.