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Relatively high prevalence of drug resistance among antiretroviral-naive patients from Henan, Central China.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Feb 2014
Li Lingnuo, Sun Binlian, Zeng Haiyan, Sun Zhiwu, Sun Guoqing, Yang Rongge
Abstract excerpt
To elucidate the prevalence of HIV-1 subtypes and transmitted drug resistance in Henan, central China, HIV-1-positive blood samples from 187 antiretroviral-naive patients were collected in our study from August 2009 to November 2010. Subtype B' (92.0%, 172 of 187) remains the predominant HIV-1 subtype in Henan province and was prevalent in all risk populations and geographic regions. Of 98 pol sequences 67...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- China
- Cluster Analysis
- Drug Resistance, Viral
- Female
- Genotype
- HIV Infections
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data