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Resistance: how HIV evolves to survive.
Common factor (Stoughton, Mass.) - 1 Apr 1995
Colvin R
Abstract excerpt
Drug resistance, the biggest problem facing medicine today, has caused recent views of anti-HIV therapies to be pessimistic. Resistance arises in HIV due to an evolutionary process involving mutations, which are passed on to viral offspring. Continuous use of antiviral agents, such as AZT, in combination with the slow course of the disease, provides time for the virus to evolve and become more resistant. There is...
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