Figure 3.

(a) Cumulative numbers of HIV-1 infections, AIDS cases, and AIDS-related deaths reported by the Ministry of Health in Malaysia (1986–2007). Inset: Distribution of HIV-1 infections in different risk categories. Abbreviations: IDU, injecting drug user; Hetero, heterosexual; Homo/Bi, male homo-/bisexual; MCT, mother-to-child transmission. (b) Structural representation of the novel HIV-1 CRF33_01B identified in Malaysia. Full-length genetic sequence revealed short subtype B fragments are recombined into the gag and pol gene in the backbone of CRF01_AE. The recombinant structures of all HIV-1 CRFs are available at the HIV Sequence Database, Los Alamos National Library.⁹⁸