HIV drug resistance.A late breaking study presented at the 39th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (print-ISSN 0066-4804, CODEN AMACCQ; canceled ISSN 0074-9923, canceled CODEN AACHAX) is an academic journal published by the American Society for Microbiology. demonstrated that phenotypic HIV drug resistance testing HIV drug resistance testing Phenotype testing AIDS The testing of various agents–eg, reverse transcriptase inhibitors, for efficacy against a particular strain of HIV Types Genotypic tests1, phenotypic test. Cf Genotype testing. is superior to treatment history in predicting sustained HIV suppression in antiretroviral therapy. Dr. Michael Saag of the University of Alabama The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as 'Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship campus of the University of Alabama System. , Birmingham described, the use of ViroLogic's phenotypic drug susceptibility assay, PhenoSense HIV, which directly measures the sensitivity or resistance of HIV. Two studies were published in JAMA JAMA abbr. Journal of the American Medical Association 1999; 282:1135 and 1142. |
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