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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2001, p. 946-948, Vol. 45, No. 3
Departments of
Virology,1 Internal
Medicine,2 and Infectious
Diseases,3 Pitié-Salpêtrière
Hospital, Paris, France
Received 8 August 2000/Returned for modification 11 October
2000/Accepted 30 November 2000
Recently, it has been shown that a new mutational pattern (the
E44D/A and/or V118I mutation) confers moderate phenotypic lamivudine resistance in the absence of the M184V mutation. The E44D/A and/or the
V118I mutation does not exist in drug-naive patients, and the
prevalence increases with the number of treatment regimens and
lamivudine experience. The mutations can preexist in
nucleoside-experienced but lamivudine-naive patients. They are always
associated with zidovudine resistance-associated mutations, even in the
absence of M184V. These mutations are more stable than the M184V
substitution during antiretroviral treatment interruptions.
0066-4804/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.3.946-948.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Prevalence and Conditions of Selection of E44D/A
and V118I Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Reverse Transcriptase
Mutations in Clinical Practice
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33142177401. Fax: 33142177411. E-mail:
vincent.calvez{at}psl.ap-hop-paris.fr.
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