Article
Rapid, Near Point-of-Care Assay for HLA-B*57:01 Genotype Associated with Severe Hypersensitivity Reaction to Abacavir
2021-06-02
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Objective</h4> The nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor abacavir is commonly used to treat young children with HIV infection. Abacavir can trigger a severe hypersensitivity reaction in people who are homozygous or heterozygous for HLA-B*57:01 . Testing for HLA-B*57:01 prior to abacavir initiation is standard-of-care in high-resource settings, but current tests are too costly for resource-limited settings...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2010840e-3275-5dd0-b4e9-ece7ebe60ba5
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.05.26.21257187
