Title: Transmission of HIV drug resistance in antiretroviral treatment-naive HIV-infected individuals
Abstract: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is commonly transmitted through blood transfusion, sexual contact and mother-to-child transmission. The number of patients with HIV infection has kept growing in the last three decades. Although the wide application of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has effectively suppressed the replication of HIV, the emergence of drug resistant mutants compromises the efficacy of ART. What is worse is that there has been transmission of drug resistance strains in ART-naive HIV-infected individuals. This review describes the distribution of transmitted drug resistance strains in different regions and high risk population as well as the factors associated with the transmission in recent years.
Key words:
HIV; Drug resistance; Transmission; Associated factors
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-07-31
Language: en
Type: article
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