Article
Resistance to antiretroviral drugs in patients with primary HIV-1 infection. Investigators of the Quebec Primary Infection Study.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 Dec 2000
Brenner B, Wainberg M A, Salomon H, Rouleau D, Dascal A, Spira B, Sekaly R P, Conway B, Routy J P
Abstract excerpt
The widespread use of antiretroviral agents (ARVs) and the growing occurrence of HIV strains resistant to these drugs have given rise to serious concerns regarding the transmission of resistant viruses to newly infected persons. Plasma viral RNA from 80 individuals newly infected between 1997 and 1999 was genotyped by automated sequencing to analyze the profile of viruses resistant to nucleoside and...
Topics
- Anti-HIV Agents
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- HIV Infections
- HIV Protease
- HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Male
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
