Article
Transmission of zidovudine-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 variants following deliberate injection of blood from a patient with AIDS: characteristics and natural history of the virus.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Sept 1995
Veenstra J, Schuurman R, Cornelissen M, van't Wout A B, Boucher C A, Schuitemaker H, Goudsmit J, Coutinho R A
Abstract excerpt
We describe the development and persistence of severe immunodeficiency in a previously healthy young woman shortly after she was deliberately injected with blood that was drawn from a patient with AIDS. The heterogenous populations of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in donor and recipient were...
Topics
- Adult
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Female
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Time Factors
- Zidovudine