Article
Quantitation of zidovudine-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in the blood of treated and untreated patients.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Jan 1993
Mohri H, Singh M K, Ching W T, Ho D D
Abstract excerpt
A nonselective ex vivo assay was used to directly detect and quantify zidovudine (AZT)-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in the blood of treated and untreated patients. In contrast to previous reports, drug-resistant virus was detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of a few of the patients who had never received AZT. The AZT resistance of HIV-1 isolates from one untreated individual...
Topics
- AIDS-Related Complex
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Female
- HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- HIV Seropositivity
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Male
