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Drug‐resistance development differs between HIV ‐1‐infected patients failing first‐line antiretroviral therapy containing nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors with and without thymidine analogues
Author(s) -
Santoro MM,
Sabin C,
Forbici F,
Bansi L,
Dunn D,
Fearnhill E,
Boumis E,
Nicastri E,
Antinori A,
Palamara G,
Callegaro A,
Francisci D,
Zoncada A,
Maggiolo F,
Zazzi M,
Perno CF,
CeccheriniSilberstein F,
Mussini C
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
hiv medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.53
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1468-1293
pISSN - 1464-2662
DOI - 10.1111/hiv.12044
Subject(s) - lamivudine , zidovudine , efavirenz , abacavir , reverse transcriptase inhibitor , medicine , interquartile range , regimen , virology , emtricitabine , nevirapine , stavudine , reverse transcriptase , nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor , gastroenterology , sida , viral load , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , biology , viral disease , virus , antiretroviral therapy , polymerase chain reaction , hepatitis b virus , biochemistry , gene
Objectives We evaluated the emergence of drug resistance in patients failing first‐line regimens containing one nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor ( NNRTI ) administered with zidovudine ( ZDV ) + lamivudine (the ZDV group) or non‐thymidine analogues (non‐ TAs ) (tenofovir or abacavir, + lamivudine or emtricitabine; the non‐ TA group). Methods Three hundred HIV ‐1‐infected patients failing a first‐line NNRTI ‐containing regimen (nevirapine, n = 148; efavirenz, n = 152) were included in the analysis. Virological failure was defined as viraemia ≥ 400 HIV ‐1 RNA copies/mL for the first time at least 6 months after starting the NNRTI ‐based regimen. For each patient, a genotypic resistance test at failure was available. The presence of drug‐resistance mutations in HIV ‐1 reverse transcriptase was evaluated by comparing patients treated with NNRTI + zidovudine + lamivudine vs. those treated with NNRTI + non‐ TA . Results A total of 208 patients were failing with NNRTI + zidovudine + lamivudine and 92 with NNRTI + non‐ TA . No significant differences were observed between the non‐ TA group and the ZDV group regarding the time of virological failure [median (interquartile range): 12 (8–25) vs. 13 (9–32) months, respectively; P = 0.119] and viraemia [median (interquartile range): 4.0 (3.2–4.9) vs. 4.0 (3.3–4.7) log 10 copies/mL, respectively; P = 0.894]. Resistance to reverse transcriptase inhibitors ( RTIs ) occurred at a significant lower frequency in the non‐ TA group than in the ZDV group (54.3 vs. 75.5%, respectively; P = 0.001). This difference was mainly attributable to a significantly lower prevalence of NNRTI resistance (54.3 vs. 74.0%, respectively; P = 0.002) and of the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor ( NRTI ) mutation M184V (23.9 vs. 63.5%, respectively; P < 0.001) in the non‐ TA group compared with the ZDV group. As expected, the mutation K65R was found only in the non‐ TA group (18.5%; P < 0.001).Conclusions At first‐line regimen failure, a lower prevalence of RTI resistance was found in patients treated with NNRTI + non‐ TA compared with those treated with NNRTI + zidovudine + lamivudine. These results confirm that the choice of backbone may influence the prevalence of drug resistance at virological failure.