Article
The utility of genotypic tropism testing in clinical practice.
International journal of STD & AIDS - 1 Jul 2015
Wyatt H, Herman O M, Macartney M, Conibear T, Garcia-Diaz A, Booth C, McCormick A, Smith C, Johnson M A, Irish D, Webster D P
Abstract excerpt
A review of a large number of HIV-1 tropism test requests (n = 1148) performed at a London tertiary referral centre was carried out. The aim was to establish whether these were being performed in line with recommendations from published guidelines and whether this represented the most cost-effective use of these tests in informing prescribing decisions of the CCR5 antagonist drug, maraviroc. The cost of these...
Topics
- CCR5 Receptor Antagonists
- Cyclohexanes
- DNA, Viral
- Drug Prescriptions
- Female
- Genotype
- HIV Infections
- HIV-1
- Humans
- London
- Male
- Maraviroc