Rate of Accumulation of Thymidine Analogue Mutations in Patients Continuing to Receive Virologically Failing Regimens Containing Zidovudine or Stavudine: Implications for Antiretroviral Therapy Programs in Resource‐Limited Settings
Author(s) -
Alessandro CozziLepri,
Andrew Phillips,
Javier MartínezPicado,
Antonella d’Arminio Monforte,
Christine Katlama,
AnnBrit Eg Hansen,
Andrzéj Horban,
Johann Bruun,
Bonaventura Clotet,
Jens Lundgren
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69
H-Index - 252
eISSN - 1537-6613
pISSN - 0022-1899
DOI - 10.1086/604731
Subject(s) - zidovudine , stavudine , reverse transcriptase inhibitor , confidence interval , medicine , reverse transcriptase , viral load , thymidine , virology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , oncology , antiretroviral therapy , immunology , pharmacology , biology , viral disease , rna , genetics , dna , gene
Because changes in antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings (RLSs) are delayed until patients experience immunological or clinical failure, it is important to be able to estimate the consequences in terms of accumulation of thymidine analogue (TA) mutations (TAMs).
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