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Frequent polymorphism at drug resistance sites in HIV-1 protease and reverse transcriptase.
AIDS (London, England) - 19 Feb 2008
Kearney Mary, Palmer Sarah, Maldarelli Frank, Shao Wei, Polis Michael A, Mican JoAnn, Rock-Kress Diane, Margolick Joseph B, Coffin John M, Mellors John W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Failure of antiretroviral therapy may result from the selection of pre-existing, drug-resistant HIV-1 variants, but the frequency and type of such variants have not been defined. OBJECTIVE: We used single genome sequencing (SGS) to characterize the frequency of polymorphism at drug resistance sites in protease (PR) and reverse transcriptase (RT) in plasma samples from antiretroviral naive individuals....
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