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Drug resistance is rarely the cause or consequence of long-term persistent low-level viraemia in HIV-1-infected patients on ART.
Antiviral therapy - 1 Jan 2015
Vancoillie Leen, Mortier Virginie, Demecheleer Els, Schauvliege Marlies, Vandekerckhove Linos, Vogelaers Dirk, Verhofstede Chris
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BACKGROUND: The introduction of highly sensitive HIV-1 viral load assays with a lower quantification limit of 20 copies/ml uncovered that in a number of patients on ART, the viral load systematically fluctuates around or slightly above the detection limit of the assays. This study aimed to analyse the presence or occurrence of drug resistance mutations in HIV-1-infected patients during long-term persistent...
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