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HIV-1 drug mutations in children from northern Tanzania.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jul 2014
Shao Elichilia R, Kifaro Emmanuel G, Chilumba Innocent B, Nyombi Balthazar M, Moyo Sikhulile, Gaseitsiwe Simani, Musonda Rosemary, Johannessen Asgeir, Kibiki Gibson, Essex Max
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OBJECTIVES: In resource-limited settings, it is a challenge to get quality clinical specimens due to poor infrastructure for their collection, transportation, processing and storage. Using dried blood spots (DBS) might be an alternative to plasma for HIV-1 drug resistance testing in this setting. The objectives of this study were to determine mutations associated with antiretroviral resistance among children <18...
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