Table 2.

Clusters identification in the studied population from Kinshasa in the 2016–2018 period.

Cluster nº	Patients data				Cluster data
	Involved subjects	Group of age	Age at sampling	Gender	HIV-1 variant	Analized nts	Bootstrap (%)	Genetic distance**	PhyML tree
1	16.RDC_P33	Adolescent	14.3	M	A*	1270	100	0.02***	Sup.Fig 2
	18.RDC_P64	Child	6.2	M
	18.CUN288	Adult	34.7	F
2	16.CUN24	Adult	57.7	F	A*	1279	100	0.05	Sup.Fig 3
	16.CUN82	Adult	62.3	M
3	16.CUN28	Adult	50.6	F	A*	649	100	0.003	Sup.Fig 4
	16.CUN32	Adult	37.6	F
4	16.RDC_P3	Child	10.2	M	H	1269	100	0.005	Sup.Fig 5
	17.RDC_P49	Child	9.7	F

Nts, nucleotides; Sup, supplementary; Fig, figure; M, male; F, female.

*Subtype A sequences not ascribed to previously characterized sub-subtypes A or CRF including A at pol coding region recovered from patients in the DRC with available LANL sequences.

**We considered recent transmission when genetic distance was lower than 0.01.

***Genetic distance <0.01 comparing P64 and CUN288.