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HIV resistance to the fusion inhibitor enfuvirtide: mechanisms and clinical implications.
Drug resistance updates : reviews and commentaries in antimicrobial and anticancer chemotherapy - 1 Apr 2004
Miller Michael D, Hazuda Daria J
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The increasing prevalence of HIV isolates resistant to one or multiple antiretroviral drugs has fueled the search for new agents that work by novel mechanisms. Enfuvirtide (ENF), licensed in 2002, is the first marketed antiretroviral (ARV) agent that targets viral entry. ENF blocks the virus replication cycle by binding to gp41, a critical component of the machinery used by HIV to enter host cells. As with all...
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