Superinfection with drug-resistant HIV is rare and does not contribute substantially to therapy failure in a large European cohort

• Authors: Abecasis AB, Assel M, Bartha I, Luca AD, Müller V, Paredes R, Rosi A, Schülter E, Sloot PMA, Sönner-borg A, Svärd J, Torti C, van de Vijver DC, Van Laethem K, Vandamme AM, Zazzi M
• Publication Year: 2013
• Journal: BMC Infectious Diseases
• Link: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/13/537/

Superinfection with drug resistant HIV strains could potentially contribute to compromised therapy in patients initially infected with drug-sensitive virus and receiving antiretroviral therapy. To investigate the importance of this potential route to drug resistance, we developed a bioinformatics pipeline to detect superinfection from routinely collected genotyping data, and assessed whether superinfection contributed to increased drug resistance in a large European cohort of viremic, drug treated patients.
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