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Surveillance of Pretreatment Drug Resistance Among HIV-Infected Children in Ibadan, Nigeria.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Dec 2021
Olusola Fiyinfoluwa I, Olusola Babatunde A, Oladokun Regina, Falade Catherine O
Abstract excerpt
There are about 2.1 million children infected with HIV globally and about 120,000 deaths annually. Nigeria has one of the highest rates of pediatric HIV infection globally. Pretreatment HIV drug resistance data inform the choice of first- and second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens. This study investigated the prevalence of HIV drug-resistant strains among ART-naive children in Ibadan, Nigeria. A total...
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