Emergence of Drug Resistance in HIV Type 1–Infected Patients after Receipt of First‐Line Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trials
Author(s) -
Ravindra K. Gupta,
Andrew Hill,
Anthony Sawyer,
Deenan Pillay
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/590943
Subject(s) - medicine , lamivudine , resistance mutation , abacavir , reverse transcriptase inhibitor , drug resistance , confidence interval , stavudine , zidovudine , hiv drug resistance , reverse transcriptase , viral load , virology , antiretroviral therapy , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , biology , virus , viral disease , polymerase chain reaction , hepatitis b virus , biochemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , gene
Resistance to antiretroviral combination therapy is associated with increased mortality. Understanding the relative risks of emerging resistance to first-line therapy is of importance for both resource-rich and resource-poor settings.
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