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HIV-1 viral load blips are of limited clinical significance
13 Mar 2006
Abstract excerpt
Many patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) who achieve undetectable HIV-1 RNA levels experience transient episodes of detectable viraemia or blips, suggesting there is incomplete suppression of viral replication. This raises concern that drug resistance mutations could develop and cause eventual treatment failure. However, data from recent studies indicate that most blips are actually random...
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