Article
Genotypic HIV type-1 drug resistance among patients with immunological failure to first-line antiretroviral therapy in south India.
Antiviral therapy - 1 Jan 2009
Vidya Madhavan, Saravanan Shanmugam, Uma Shanmugasundaram, Kumarasamy Nagalingeswaran, Sunil Solomon S, Kantor Rami, Katzenstein David, Ramratnam Bharat, Mayer Kenneth H, Suniti Solomon, Balakrishnan Pachamuthu
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: HIV type-1 (HIV-1) monitoring in resource-limited settings relies on clinical and immunological assessment. The objective of this study was to study the frequency and pattern of reverse transcriptase (RT) drug resistance among patients with immunological failure (IF) to first-line therapy. METHODS: A cross-sectional study of 228 patients with IF was done, of which 126 were drug-naive (group A) when...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
