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High prevalence of virological failure and HIV drug mutations in a first-line cohort of Malawian children
Author(s) -
Minke H. W. Huibers,
Pieter Moons,
Marion Cornelissen,
Fokla Zorgdrager,
Nombulelo Maseko,
Montfort Bernard Gushu,
Oluwadamilola H. Iwajomo,
Michaël Boele van Hensbroek,
Job C. J. Calis
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dky348
Subject(s) - medicine , nevirapine , viral load , drug resistance , population , cohort , regimen , prospective cohort study , virology , genotype , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology , antiretroviral therapy , environmental health , biology , genetics , gene
Drug resistance mutations (DRMs) increasingly jeopardize paediatric HIV programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. As individual monitoring of DRMs and viral loads has limited availability, population data on DRMs are essential to determine first-line susceptibility. Paediatric data from sub-Saharan Africa are scarce and unavailable for Malawi.

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