HIV/AIDS
Investigators at Kanazawa University target HIV/AIDS
Published in AIDS Weekly, April 27th, 2009
"We evaluated the prevalence and profile of antiretroviral treatment (ART)-associated resistance mutations among HIV-1 strains in northern Vietnam by genotypically analyzing strains isolated from ART-naive individuals in Hai Phong, a city in which HIV-1 is highly prevalent. Plasma samples were collected from injecting drug users (IDU, n = 760), female sex workers (FSW, n = 91), seafarers (n = 94), pregnant women (n = 200), and blood donors (n = 210), and screened for HIV-1 antibodies," researchers in Kanazawa, Japan report.
"Plasma viral RNA was extracted from HIV-1-positive samples, amplified by reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR of protease and RT genes, and analyzed for...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-04-27)
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