HIV/AIDS Therapy

Drug-resistant virus increasingly common in newly infected patients

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 21st, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Newly infected, treatment-naive HIV patients are increasingly likely to carry drug-resistant strains of the virus, researchers warn.

"Among persons in North America who are newly infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the prevalence of transmitted resistance to antiretroviral drugs has been estimated at 1-11%," according to Susan J. Little and colleagues at the University of California at San Diego, South San Francisco-based ViroLogic, Inc., and other institutions in the United States and Canada.

However, Little and coauthors found evidence suggesting that the actual rate of transmitted...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-10-21)

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