Article
Resistance of HIV-1 to multiple antiretroviral drugs in France: a 6-year survey (1997-2002) based on an analysis of over 7000 genotypes.
AIDS (London, England) - 7 Nov 2003
Tamalet Catherine, Fantini Jacques, Tourres Christian, Yahi Nouara
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Evaluating the proportion of patients with mutated drug-resistant HIV-1 strains is a major issue of current AIDS research and therapy. According to a recent study in the United States, nearly 80% of HIV-1-infected patients have virus strains that are resistant to at least one antiretroviral drug. The aim of this study was to assess the extent of multiple drug resistance among individuals followed for...
Topics
- Anti-HIV Agents
- Cohort Studies
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Viral
- France
- Genotype
- HIV Infections
- HIV Protease Inhibitors
- HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Mutation
- Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors