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Discordant Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 drug resistance mutations, including K103N, observed in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Jul 2002
Tashima K T, Flanigan T P, Kurpewski J, Melanson S M, Skolnik P R
Abstract excerpt
Discordant resistance mutations were seen in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolated from specimens of blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) obtained from 3 of 6 patients. To our knowledge, this is the first report of HIV-1 isolated from CSF harboring the K103N mutation, which confers resistance to the nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors, and this finding may indicate that virus in the CSF...
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