Article
Heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 variants associated with zidovudine resistance.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Feb 1994
Conlon C P, Klenerman P, Edwards A, Larder B A, Phillips R E
Abstract excerpt
During zidovudine therapy, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) acquires a distinctive set of mutations that diminish the sensitivity of the virus to this drug in vitro. An AIDS patient is described who, while being treated with zidovudine, transmitted HIV-1 bearing a drug resistance mutation to a young woman who had never received zidovudine treatment. DNA sequencing of HIV-1 proviruses confirmed that...
Topics
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- DNA Primers
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- HIV Infections
- HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Male
