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Affordable in-house antiretroviral drug resistance assay with good performance in non-subtype B HIV-1.
Journal of virological methods - 1 Feb 2010
Wallis Carole L, Papathanasopoulos Maria A, Lakhi Shabir, Karita Etienne, Kamali Anatoli, Kaleebu Pontiano, Sanders Eduard, Anzala Omu, Bekker Linda-Gail, Stevens Gwynn, de Wit Tobias F Rinke, Stevens Wendy
Abstract excerpt
The introduction of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy in resource-poor settings is effective in suppressing HIV-1 replication and prolonging life of infected individuals. This has led to a demand for affordable HIV-1 drug resistance assays, since treatment failure due to development of drug resistance is common. This study developed and evaluated an affordable "in-house" genotyping assay to monitor HIV-1 drug...
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