Article
Genotypic resistance in plasma and peripheral blood lymphocytes in a group of naive HIV-1 patients.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Apr 2007
Bon Isabella, Gibellini Davide, Borderi Marco, Alessandrini Federica, Vitone Francesca, Schiavone Pasqua, Re Maria Carla
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Since HIV infection cannot be completely eliminated due to the establishment of latently infected CD4+ T cell reservoirs, there is an urgent need for a clearer understanding of comparative resistance profiles between plasma and PBMC in HIV-1 patients. OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevale...
Topics
- Adult
- Amino Acid Substitution
- DNA, Viral
- Drug Resistance, Viral
- Female
- HIV Infections
- HIV Protease
- HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Lymphocytes
- Male
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
- Plasma
- RNA, Viral
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
