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Transmission dynamics of the M184V drug resistance mutation in primary HIV infection.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Oct 2011
Wainberg Mark A, Moisi Daniela, Oliveira Maureen, Toni Thomas D'Aquin, Brenner Bluma G
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: M184V in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase is among the most common mutations in patients failing antiretroviral therapy but is found only rarely in cases of transmitted drug resistance. METHODS: To investigate this apparent paradox, we developed an allele-specific real-time PCR (AS-PCR) assay to determine the transmission of M184V in newly infected individuals. RESULTS: M184V transmission may occur to a...
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