Pathology

Study Finds Widespread Drug-Resistant HIV

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 21st, 2002

A new study reports that about half the people infected with HIV and under care in the U.S. harbor a strain of HIV that is resistant to at least one drug used to treat the disease.

While previous studies have looked at drug resistance within small populations, this is the first study done at the national level, which assesses how widespread drug resistant HIV has become in this country. Dr. Douglas Richman, a physician at VA San Diego (California) Healthcare System, presented the findings on December 18, 2001, at the American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting on infectious diseases in Chicago.

The survey, conducted by RAND Corp. and the...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-01-21)

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