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3TC treatment may slow HIV mutations, development of drug resistance.
NIAID AIDS agenda - 1 Mar 1996
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According to a recent study conducted by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, HIV develops a mutation (M184V) in patients treated with 3TC (lamivudine). The mutation appears to be resistant to 3TC but decreases the rate at which other mutations develop. Researchers are hopeful that the slowed rate of variation of HIV will be an advantage to the immune system's ability to suppress the virus. In cell culture...
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