| Title | Risk network structure in the early epidemic phase of HIV transmission in Colorado Springs. | | Author(s) | Potterat JJ, Phillips-Plummer L, Muth SQ, Rothenberg RB, Woodhouse DE, Maldonado-Long TS, Zimmerman HP, Muth JB | | Institution | STD/HIV Program, El Paso County Department of Health and Environment, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80910, USA. jjpotterat@earthlink.net | | Source | Sex Transm Infect 2002 Apr.:i159-63. | | MeSH | Adolescent
Adult
Colorado
Contact Tracing
Female
HIV Infections
Humans
Incidence
Male
Risk
Sexual Behavior
Sexual Partners
Substance Abuse, Intravenous
| | Abstract | 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. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 12083437 |
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