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Drug resistance and HCV coinfection in former blood donors infected with HIV type 1 in China.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Aug 2011
Liu Jia, Chen Xiangmei, Xie Qing, Zhang Weidong, Wei Lai, Shen Tao, Xu Qiang, Zhuang Hui, Gao Feng, Lu Fengmin
Abstract excerpt
Unhygienic blood collection caused an outbreak of HIV-1 and HCV infections among blood donors in rural areas in Henan province, China. Partial HIV-1 pol and HCV NS5b gene sequences were obtained from 97 persons infected with HIV-1 to determine the efficacy of treatment, the prevalence of drug-resistant mutations, and the impact of HCV infection on disease progression of infection with HIV-1. After antiretroviral...
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