Published in Drug Week, August 12th, 2005
"Resistance testing is considered standard of care in HIV medicine, but there is no standard interpretation system for genotype tests. We sought to determine how much agreement exists within a group of experts in the interpretation of complex genotypes," scientists in the United States report.
"Genotypes from clinical specimens were sent to an international panel of 12 resistance experts. Phenotypic susceptibility testing of these clinical isolates was performed with antivirogram.
"Experts predicted phenotype fold...
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Source: Drug Week (2005-08-12)
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