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Studies from AIDS Center provide new data on HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 21st, 2009

"A tissue culture cell line infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) produced only noninfectious particles because of a lethal mutation in env," investigators in Montreal, Canada report.

"The defective MDR provirus was rescued by superinfection with either wild-type HIV-1 or a second replication-defective virus lethally mutated in capsid. Drug-resistance phenotyping revealed that the MDR viruses dominated if even single reverse-transcriptase inhibitors were present, reflecting linkage of the various drug resistance mutations on a single viral nucleic acid backbone," wrote Y. Quan and colleagues, AIDS Center.

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