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Acquisition of syncytium-inducing HIV-1 strains during therapy with zidovudine alone or combined with alpha interferon or didanosine.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 Apr 1996
Torres Y, Leal M, Rey C, Medrano F J, Sánchez-Quijano A, Lissen E
Abstract excerpt
The effect of antiretroviral treatment on HIV-1 phenotype was studied in a group of 83 nucleoside-naive patients. These initially nonsyncytium-inducing HIV-1 positive patients were followed prospectively for their HIV-1 phenotype. Syncytium-inducing variants were detected by cocultivation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells with the MT-2 T-cell line. Overall, 16 of 83 (19%) patients underwent a shift to...
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