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Clinical and sociodemographic correlates of emergent or evolving HIV drug resistance in low viral load specimens in British Columbia, Canada.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Jun 2025
Sudderuddin Hanwei, Beelen Charlotte Johanna, Li Jenny, Zhang Wendy, Murray Melanie C M, Lima Viviane D, Montaner Julio S G, Brumme Chanson J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/METHODS: Treatment guidelines recommend genotypic HIV drug resistance testing (DRT) at virologic failure, typically for plasma viral loads (pVL) > 1000 HIV RNA c/mL. In some settings, DRT can be performed on low viral load (LVL) samples (pVL of 50-250 c/mL); however, such testing is resource-intensive and its clinical benefit is unclear. Therefore, we investigated the frequency and factors associated...
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- Humans
- HIV Infections
- British Columbia
- Drug Resistance, Viral
- Viral Load
