Friday, January 24, 2014

Research Sheds Light on The Evolution of Drug Resistance Within a HIV Population

Previous research has indicated that drug resistance mutations in HIV reduce the genetic diversity in the rest of the virus genome when they spread within an infected patient. A new study published in iPLOS Genetics/i, by Dr Pleuni Pennings and colleagues, found that in some patients a resistance mutation to a particular drug appeared in a single virus particle, which then rapidly proliferated until the entire viral population within the patient consisted of ...

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