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What you need to know about HIV resistance.
AIDS alert - 1 Oct 1997
Abstract excerpt
Drug resistance is a serious issue for patients undergoing HIV treatment. An HIV-positive person produces as many as ten billion copies of the virus each day, and during the initial stage of infection while the immune system is still strong, those copies are eliminated in two and one half days. As the virus reproduces, it increases its opportunity to mutate and to become resistant to anti-HIV drugs. HIV...
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