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High Levels of Pretreatment HIV-1 Drug Resistance Mutations Among South African Women Who Acquired HIV During a Prospective Study.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) - 1 Oct 2022
Beesham Ivana, Parikh Urvi M, Mellors John W, Joseph Davey Dvora L, Heffron Renee, Palanee-Phillips Thesla, Bosman Shannon L, Beksinska Mags, Smit Jennifer, Ahmed Khatija, Makkan Heeran, Selepe Pearl, Louw Cheryl, Kotze Philip, Hofmeyr G Justus, Singata-Madliki Mandisa, Rees Helen, Baeten Jared M, Wallis Carole
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BACKGROUND: Pretreatment HIV drug resistance (PDR) undermines individual treatment success and threatens the achievement of UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets. In many African countries, limited data are available on PDR as detection of recent HIV infection is uncommon and access to resistance testing is limited. We describe the prevalence of PDR among South African women with recent HIV infection from the Evidence for...
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