Drug Resistance

HIV Increasing at Brazilian Test Site, with Evidence of Transmission of Resistant Virus

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 30th, 2000

University of California, San Francisco, researchers and Brazilian colleagues report that analysis of blood samples taken at an anonymous test site in Santos, Brazil, from 1995 to 1999 shows an increase in the rate of HIV infection after a period of decline.

The increase was noted particularly in heterosexual women, a group that has not previously had a high rate of HIV infection in this area.

A preliminary analysis of a small number of blood samples also found evidence of transmission of a drug-resistant virus strain, said Kimberly Page-Shafer, PhD, MPH, UCSF assistant professor of medicine and epidemiologist with the UCSF Center for AIDS...

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