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Infectious Diseases
Research from T.V. Madsen and co-researchers provides new data on infectious diseases
April 8th, 2008
"HIV-1 from a patient with multi-drug resistant virus was identified as wild type during treatment interruption. The aim of the study was to describe how the viral population is affected by treatment interruptions and use phylogeny to reconstruct the evolutionary pattern. 15 samples covering 13 y and 2 treatment interruptions were analysed in both pol and env," scientists writing in the Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases report. "The wild type virus found in the sample from the second treatment interruption in 2002 had not been present as a dominant population since 1994. Phylogeny showed that the 2002 sample was more closely related to wild type...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-08)
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