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Evolution of HIV-1 in a patient population failing multiple-drug therapy.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Sept 2009
Hong Shaolin, Cao Jingjiang, Tu Ya-ting
Abstract excerpt
To understand the evolutionary pathway of the multi-drug-resistant virus HIV-1 under drug-induced selection pressure, plasma from seven patients from baseline to different intervals post-treatment failure were used in RT-PCR protocols. Multiple clones were sequenced for each time point. Drug-resistant mutations were detected in five patients. Phylogenetic analysis showed that at different time points, viral...
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