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Low-frequency HIV-1 drug resistance mutations can be clinically significant but must be interpreted with caution.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jul 2010
Johnson Jeffrey A, Geretti Anna Maria
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With drug-resistant HIV-1 present in at least 10%-20% of new infections in Western countries and in >60% of patients failing antiretroviral therapy (ART), monitoring HIV-1 drug resistance is becoming increasingly important for assessing its impact on therapeutic measures of virus control and for guiding treatment. The sensitivity limitations of conventional bulk genotyping often lead to an underestimation of the...
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