Antiretroviral Drug Resistance and Routine Therapy, Cameroon

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Laurent, Christian ; Kouanfack, Charles ; Vergne, Laurence ; Tardy, Michèle ; Zekeng, Léopold ; Noumsi, Nathalie ; Butel, Christelle ; Bourgeois, Anke ; Mpoudi-Ngolé, Eitel ; Koulla-Shiro, Sinata ; Peeters, Martine ; Delaporte, Eric
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• Description:
  Among 128 patients routinely receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy in an HIV/AIDS outpatient clinic in Cameroon, 16.4% had drug resistance after a median of 10 months. Of these, 12.5% had resistance to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), 10.2% to non-NRTIs, and 2.3% to protease inhibitors.
• Subjects:
  • Dispatch
  • Adult
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active
  • Base Sequence
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Drug Resistance, Viral
  • Female
  • Genotype
  • HIV Infections
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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 12(6):1001-1004.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Cameroon
• Location:
  Africa
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16006/cdc_16006_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 195.84 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c272ea0110ffc08f4d235e4f68f1de9ed0ea2a96680f99537e9cc67fe2ef0e3a