Epidemiology

Surveillance System Will Track Antiretroviral Drug Resistance

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 22nd, 1997

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a surveillance system to monitor antiretroviral drug resistance among certain HIV infected populations.

Surveillance data will be compared with information from a European surveillance system assessing newly diagnosed patients treated at certain hospital clinics.

According to an article in the July-August 1997 issue of the National Center for Infectious Disease publication Focus ("Surveillance System to Assess Drug-Resistant HIV in the United States and Europe." Focus, 1997;6:2), targeted populations in the U.S. will be adult seroconverters; HIV infected pregnant women beginning...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-09-22)

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