High burden of transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance in Italian patients carrying F1 subtype

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1250-1253

  Franzetti, Marco ^a   Lai, Alessia ^a   Roberto Simonetti, Francesco ^a   Bozzi, Giorgio ^a   De luca, Andrea ^b   Micheli, Valeria ^a   Meraviglia, Paola ^a   Corsi, Paola ^c   Bagnarelli, Patrizia ^d   Almi, Paolo ^b   Zoncada, Alessia ^e   Balotta, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^e CREMONA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antiretroviral therapy; HIV 1 subtypes; Resistance epidemiology

Indexed keywords

NONNUCLEOSIDE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITOR; POL PROTEIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 F1 SUBTYPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PIACENZIAN; SOUTH AMERICA; TRANSMITTED ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 AGENT RESISTANCE; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POL GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84859576600     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks013     Document Type: Article

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