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Antiretroviral drug resistance mutations among treated and treatment-naive patients in Pakistan: diversity of the HIV type 1 pol gene in Pakistan.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Dec 2011
Shah Sharaf, Xing Hui, Altaf Arshad, Chen Bing, Liao Lingjie, Jia Yujiang, Vermund Sten H, Shao Yiming
Abstract excerpt
Pakistan is experiencing a growing HIV epidemic. Antiretroviral drugs (ARV) have been smuggled into the country and available without prescription since the early 1990s, but are now provided free of cost by the government. We assessed the prevalence of HIV-1, drug resistance, and subtype distributions. Blood specimens were collected from HIV-1-infected participants registered in Sindh Province on dry blood spot...
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