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Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus drug resistance mutations and subtypes in drug-naive, infected individuals in the army health service of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2004
Pires Ivone L, Soares Marcelo A, Speranza Francisco A B, Ishii Solange K, Vieira Maria C G, Gouvêa Maria I F S, Guimarães Maria A A M, de Oliveira Fátima E, Magnanini Monica M F, Brindeiro Rodrigo M, Tanuri Amilcar
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of mutations that confer resistance to antiretroviral drugs was examined in 56 drug-naive, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected individuals from the Army Health Service in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. No primary protease inhibitor mutations were found, but secondary mutations were observed in 51.2% of the samples. Fourteen percent of the viruses had reverse transcriptase...
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