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Biological testing versus sequence analysis for determination of drug resistance of human immunodeficiency virus.
Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie : international journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jul 1996
Wichers M, Kaiser R, Rockstroh J, Matz B, Schneweis K E
Abstract excerpt
Resistance of HIV-1 to 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) is associated with one or more of five mutations in the reverse transcriptase (RT) segment of the polymerase gene ("AZT-specific mutations"). Therefore, sequence analysis of the proviral DNA, derived directly from the blood, is considered to replace the biological test. Additional arguments are non-cultivatable viral strains, the universality of the sequence...
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