In recent years, the population infected through sexual contact has seen the fastest growing prevalence of HIV transmission in Henan province, China. Here, we report two novel human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) recombinant form detected from a comprehensive HIV-1 molecular epidemiologic study among heterosexuals. Recombinant analyses of the near full-length genome of the two novel HIV-1 recombinant isolates: 01B.CN.2012.11092 was CRF01_AE that was partly replaced by a subtype B′ fragment of 414 bp (from 4482-4896 according to the HXB2 calibrator). 01BC.CN.2011.11312 was composed of three segments (CRF01_AE/CRF_07BC/B′) with breakpoints 4274 and 4833 according to the HXB2 calibrator. They are different from previously identified recombinant strains reported in China.
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