Rapid and persistent selection of the K103N mutation as a majority quasispecies in a HIV1-patient exposed to efavirenz for three weeks: a case report and review of the literature

INTRODUCTION: Selection of the K103N mutation is associated with moderately reduced in vitro fitness of HIV. Strains bearing K103N in vivo tend to persist, even in the absence of additional drug pressure, as minority quasispecies, often undetectable in genotyping resistance testing assays, performed...

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Autores principales: Polilli, Ennio, Parruti, Giustino, Cosentino, Luana, Sozio, Federica, Saracino, Annalisa, Consorte, Augusta, Angarano, Gioacchino, Di Masi, Francesco, Mazzotta, Elena, Fazii, Paolo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21092074
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-9132

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