Hiv Mutation And Resistance To Drugs

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Which HIV-1 Drug Resistance Mutations Are Common in Clinical Practice?

I know most mutations are polymorphisms...but which are most common and have significance for treatment?...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Go to: http://www.iasusa.org, and on the left side tabs, go to resistance mutations. That will lead to a table that shows all the HIV medication associated mutations.... Read more »

mutations and resistance

Dear Dr. Young, I have written you before regarding other issues and you seem to have a... Read more »

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D. »

Mutation Test for Anti-HIV Drugs

I recently read (in The Washington Blade) a brief piece about a mutation test that "a... Read more »

Response from Cal Cohen, M.D., M.S. »

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Articles

Ten Percent of New HIV Cases Have Virus Mutation Associated With Antiretroviral Resistance, Researcher Says at Microbicide Conference

One in 10 newly diagnosed HIV-positive people have at least one "significant mutation" of the virus "associated with drug resistance," Mark Wainberg, director of the McGill AIDS Centre at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Canada, said on... Read more »

Genotypic Analyses of HIV Isolates for Antiviral Resistance Mutations from Source Patients Involved in Occupational Exposures

Dr. Harold Kessler of Chicago's Rush Medical College presented data froma collaboration with colleagues at the University of Colorado in which theyanalyzed HIV isolates they obtained from 22 source patients of health careworkers who sustained... Read more »

News on HIV Drug Resistance in New Antiretrovirals From the XVI International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop

Doug Richman provided a comprehensive recap on HIV resistance from the annual HIV resistance conference, held this year in June in Barbados. 1 His focus was on four major areas: resistance associated with the new non-nucleoside reverse... Read more »

AIDS Community Research Initiative of America

HIV Drug Resistance and Resistance Testing

Table of Contents What Is Drug Resistance? How Does HIV Drug Resistance Occur? How Do Mutations Occur Before Antiretroviral Therapy Is Started? How Do Mutations Occur During Antiretroviral Therapy? What Are Some of the Factors That Contribute... Read more »

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Resisting Resistance - A Story

Posted by Survivor, 1 Reply

Personal Perspective: Resisting Resistance

By Matt Sharp

Spring 2006

In a little over four months I will turn fifty. When I was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 I never dreamed I'd reach forty. I've survived a long battle with HIV, and it has not been... Read more »

Drug Resistant HIV

Posted by Anonymous

Hi

I just found out the strain of hiv i have is resistant to possibly a whole class of NRTIs and PIs..any experience with this for any of you? what could the options be for someone in my situation? I am still treatment naive.

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New York draws fire over case of drug-resistantHIV

Posted by Anonymous

Nature 433, 788 (24 February 2005)

New York draws fire over case of drug-resistant HIV

ERIKA CHECK

Rare, aggressive form of AIDS used to publicize dangers of unprotected
sex.

[WASHINGTON] A decision by New York health officials to announce the
detection... Read more »

mutation

Posted by drnsee, 3 Replies

I'm aware that the HIV virus itself may mutate over time. However, my partner who has had HIV twice as long as I have heard that it actually mutates your own [human] DNA. That it integrates into your system so much that this happens over time.

I'm... Read more »

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