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HIV Type 1 from a Patient with Baseline Resistance to CCR5 Antagonists Uses Drug-Bound Receptor for Entry
1 Jan 2010
Abstract excerpt
CCR5 antagonists are a new class of antiretroviral drugs that block viral entry by disrupting interactions between the viral envelope (Env) glycoprotein and coreceptor. During the CCR100136 (EPIC) Phase IIb study of the CCR5 antagonist aplaviroc (APL) in treatment-naive individuals, a patient was identified who harbored virus strains that exhibited partial resistance to APL at the time of virologic failure....
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