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Genotypic Inhibitory Quotient as Predictor of Virological Response to Ritonavir-Amprenavir in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Protease Inhibitor-Experienced Patients

Department of Virology,¹ Department of Infectious Diseases and INSERM EMI 0214,³ Department of Internal Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital,⁴ Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France²

Received 31 May 2002/ Returned for modification 20 August 2002/ Accepted 14 November 2002

Forty-nine protease inhibitor (PI)-experienced but amprenavir (APV)-naïve patients experiencing virological failure were treated with ritonavir (RTV) (100 mg twice a day [b.i.d.]) plus APV (600 mg b.i.d.). Patients responded to therapy with a median viral load decrease of -1.32 log₁₀ by week 12. The addition of low-dose RTV enhanced the minimal APV concentration in plasma (APV C_min) up to 10-fold compared with that obtained with APV (1,200 mg b.i.d.) without RTV. Baseline PI resistance mutations (L10F/I/V, K20M/R, E35D, R41K, I54V, L63P, V82A/F/T/S, I84V) identified by univariate analysis and included in a genotypic score and APV C_min at week 8 were predictive of the virological response at week 12. The response to APV plus RTV was significantly reduced in patients with six or more of the resistance mutations among the ones defined above. The genotypic inhibitory quotient, calculated as the ratio of the APV C_min to the number of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease mutations, was a better predictor than the virological or pharmacological variables used alone. This genotypic inhibitory quotient could be used in therapeutic drug monitoring to define the concentrations in plasma needed to control replication of viruses with different levels of PI resistance, as measured by the number of PI resistance mutations.

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