Article
The frequency of HIV-I drug resistance mutations among treatment-naive individuals at a tertiary care centre in south India.
International journal of STD & AIDS - 1 Aug 2009
Kandathil A J, Kannangai R, Abraham O C, Rupali P, Pulimood S A, Verghese V P, Grant P, Pillay D, Sridharan G
Abstract excerpt
Antiretroviral treatment (ART) use in India requires information on baseline drug resistance mutations and polymorphisms in the protease (Pr) and reverse transcriptase (RT) genes of HIV-1 strains from treatment-naïve individuals. We report resistance predictor mutations and polymorphisms in the P...
Topics
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Base Sequence
- Child
- Drug Resistance, Viral
- Female
- Genotype
- HIV Protease
- HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation