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HIV Drug Resistance

Table of Contents What Is Resistance? What Causes Resistance? Cross-Resistance and Sequencing How Do I Know if I Have Drug Resistance? Resistance Testing Avoiding Resistance What Is Resistance? HIV drugs are designed to keep your viral loadunder control by preventing the virus from reproducing (or making copies ofitself). Sometimes HIV is able to overcome the effects of a drug and keepreproducing anyway. When this happens,...

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HLA matched bone marrow from HIV non-progressors?

Dear Doctor: I noticed in the July edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency that an HIV-infected patient has been treated successfully with intensive chemotherapy combined with a bone marrow transplant. The transplant came from an HLA...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

A few years ago, bone marrow transplantation in HIV-infected patients was unthinkable. We will indeed be seeing more and more reports of it. Currently however it remains quite a toxic procedure. Only time will tell how this will pan out in the... Read more »

Writing for 4th time, pls do respond, else i shall die, HLA-B27 +ve effecting ELISA HIV Test

Dear Doc.I have tried to view all the acrchieves but could not get my answer. I am writing for the 4th time, pls do respond.I had an unprotected oral followed by a protected vaginal sex ( i do not remember any condom slippage or things like that )...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Your HIV risk was extremely low at best. Your symptoms have been linked to other ailments appendicitis, giardiasis, duodenal ulcer with H. pylori, etc. Your HIV tests all 16 of them out to 17 months post-potential exposure are negative.... Read more »

HLA-B5701 NH, NH2, sulphonamide Problem of treatment

My name is Robert Jankowski. I am a resident of Warsaw in Poland. I am 46 years old. Guidance homosexual. Since August 2011 I was diagnosed with HIV. The first test for HIV was conducted in 2004. HIV Ag / Ab negative. To infection may have occurred...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

The rate of drug allergy/sensitivity to sulfa drugs appears higher in HIV+ patients. You dont mention what your HIV level was or resistance profile. If maraviroc is available, consider assessment for CCR5 status.Use of an integrase inhibitor or... Read more »

HLA-B57

Why is this test done?...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

This blood test if positive has been associated with slower progression of HIV infection.... Read more »

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does this mean you have hiv when u have this hla

Posted by need2know01, 1 Reply

Epitope-Enhanced Conserved HIV-1 Peptide Protects HLA-A2-Transgenic Mice Against Virus Expressing HIV-1 Antigen
Takahiro Okazaki1,*, C. David Pendleton*, Franois Lemonnier and Jay A. Berzofsky2,*
* Molecular Immunogenetics and Vaccine Research... Read more »

BRoken Angel/HIV resistent people follow up.

Posted by Anonymous

Hi , i poosted about people being HIV resistent, I asked if anyone has heard of this. Im not trying to spread rumours or give out hope. The fact is out of 6 billion people you cant tell me straight in the eye not one person is resistent. I have been... Read more »

HIV resistent people

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies

This is a follow up on someone else post. What if there are HIV resistaent people out there. Maybe those symptoms we had was a serosonverion but maybe our body had a little extra oomph and killed it off. You cant tell me the millions of people out... Read more »

Highly resistant HIV

Posted by BeerMe30, 3 Replies

I have posted under different topics, really never sure which one is right. It has been a month after finding out positive. I just found out my lab results yesterday and it shows I have a high resistant form of HIV. I am just looking to hear from... Read more »

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