Article
Emergence of dual resistance to zidovudine and lamivudine in HIV-1-infected patients treated with zidovudine plus lamivudine as initial therapy.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) - 1 Jan 2000
Kuritzkes D R, Shugarts D, Bakhtiari M, Poticha D, Johnson J, Rubin M, Gingeras T R, Kennedy M, Eron J J
Abstract excerpt
Presence of mutations associated with resistance to zidovudine or lamivudine was determined in isolates of HIV-1 obtained after long-term follow-up of 64 infected individuals who received zidovudine, lamivudine, or both drugs as initial antiretroviral therapy. Zidovudine resistance mutations were less frequent in isolates from patients treated with combination lamivudine plus zidovudine compared with zidovudine...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Anti-HIV Agents
- Codon
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Drug Therapy, Combination
- HIV Infections
- HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Lamivudine
