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HIV-1 protease inhibitor-associated mutation prevalence correlates with long-term treatment

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 11th, 2006

The increasing prevalence of HIV-1 protease inhibitor-associated mutations correlates with long-term nonsuppressive protease inhibitor treatment.

"Treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type I with protease inhibitors (PIs) is associated with the emergence of resistance-associated mutations. Treatment-characterized datasets have been used to identify novel treatment-associated protease mutations," wrote investigators in the United States.

According to R.M. Kagan and colleagues at Quest Diagnostic Nichols Institute, "In this study, we utilized two large reference laboratory databases (>11,5000 viral sequences) to identify nonestablished...

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