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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Aug 12.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Genet Evol. 2016 May 21;46:269–278. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.05.029

Table 3.

HIV-1 subtype diversity in persons who inject drugs in Bulgaria.

Subtype Number (%) Sofia Plovdiv Other cities Pa Prisoner Not prisoner P Roma (Gypsy) Not Roma P
CRF02_AG 50 (42.7) 1 (2.0) 48 (96.0) 1 (2.0) <0.0001 16 (32.0) 34 (68.0) <0.0001 19 (38.0) 31 (62.0) ns
CRF01_AE 41 (35.0) 31 (75.6) 2 (4.9) 8 (19.5) <0.0001 27 (65.9) 14 (34.1) <0.01 17 (41.5) 24 (58.5) ns
URFsb 12 (10.3) 4 (33.3) 8 (66.7) 0 nsc 11 (91.7) 1 (8.3) <0.01 4 (33.3) 8 (66.7) ns
B 10 (8.5) 4 (40.0) 1 (10.0) 5 (50.0)  0.01 1 (10.0) 9 (90.0) <0.05 1 (10.0) 9 (90.0) ns
F1 2 (1.7) 0 0 2 (100) ns 1 (50.0) 1 (50.0) ns 0 2 (100) ns
CRF14_BG 2 (1.7) 2 (100) 0 0 ns 0 2 (100) ns 0 2 (100) ns
Total 117 42 59 16 56 61 41 76
a

P, probability determined using Fisher’s exact test.

b

URFs, unique recombinant forms.

c

ns, not statistically significant.