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Fitness impaired drug resistant HIV-1 is not compromised in cell-to-cell transmission or establishment of and reactivation from latency.
Viruses - 19 Sept 2014
Bastarache Sophie M, Mesplède Thibault, Donahue Daniel A, Sloan Richard D, Wainberg Mark A
Abstract excerpt
Both the presence of latently infected cells and cell-to-cell viral transmission are means whereby HIV can partially evade the inhibitory activities of antiretroviral drugs. The clinical use of a novel integrase inhibitor, dolutegravir (DTG), has established hope that this compound may limit HIV persistence, since no treatment-naïve patient treated with DTG has yet developed resistance against this drug, even...
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