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Resistance Mutational Analysis of HIV Type 1 Subtype C among Rural South African Drug-Naive Patients Prior to Large-Scale Availability of Antiretrovirals
1 Dec 2006
Abstract excerpt
Baseline HIV-1 resistance data are important for resistance monitoring purposes especially in regions initiating large-scale antiretroviral treatment programs. We examined 40 protease and 35 reverse transcriptase amino acid sequences of HIV-1 subtype C from drug inexperienced patients from rural settings in South Africa for resistance mutations. Samples were collected between 2001 and 2004 prior to the...
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