Data quick in emergenciesed at the ...

Data quick in emergenciesed at the fourth International Workshop forward HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Strategies point out to that many HIV patients are resistant to HIV medications commonly available, according to a June 13 2000 novels release from Virco. Approximately 12000 HIV patients were take a view ofed in the United States in 1999 as part of the routine clinical practice of testing HIV samples for medication resistance.

The inspect found that 27.2% of participants were resistant to all three classes of HIV medication generally available, 29.1% were resistant to couple classes, and 21.9% were resistant to individual class. This leaves only 218% of participants sensitive to all three classes of medication.

"These deductions are very sobering," said John Mellors, MD of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and cochair of the workshop. "The follows of this survey not simply reveal the extent of the resistance problem--a major cause of treatment failure--but also underline the importance of resistance testing to support treatment decision-making in HIV clinical practice."

The data point out that the choice of an adequate resistance exhibition also may be a factor in determining the accuracy of the follows According to the release, many HIV patients have a virus with mutated genetic code--a change at codon 333 in the turn end for end transcriptase gene that facilitates dual AZT/3TC resistance--that the mostly current resistance tests cannot find out Of those surveyed, 12.1% were lay the foundation of to have this mutation.

meditation Indicates Need for Increased HIV Resistance Testing (new release, Sitges, Spain: Virco, June 13 2000) 1-2 Available from http://wwww.newsdesk.com/members/ showdoc, htm.?file=pr122679.txt. Accessed 13 June 2000

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