Cells producing residual viremia during antiretroviral treatment appear to contribute to rebound viremia following interruption of treatment

HA Aamer, J McClure, D Ko, J Maenza… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… To understand the significance of RV as related to the persistence of HIV infection, we
characterized the dynamics of RV sequence variants among plasma viruses over nearly a decade …

Low-abundance drug-resistant HIV-1 variants in antiretroviral drug-naive individuals: a systematic review of detection methods, prevalence, and clinical impact

HA Mbunkah, S Bertagnolio, RL Hamers… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… (NGS), virus variants present at low frequencies within the virus population of individuals can
… or cutoffs for detecting low-abundance variants, and specific strengths and limitations [11]. …

A minor population of macrophage-tropic HIV-1 variants is identified in recrudescing viremia following analytic treatment interruption

VM Andrade, C Mavian, D Babic… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
antiretroviral therapy (ART) and efforts to develop a cure for HIV-1 infection include
characterization of the reservoirs that sustain viral … post-ATI viremia contains virus variants with a …

Pre-treatment HIV-drug resistance associated with virologic outcome of first-line NNRTI-antiretroviral therapy: a cohort study in Kenya

IA Beck, M Levine, CJ McGrath, S Bii, RS Milne… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
… transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTI)-based antiretroviral treatment (ART) is increasing in low-…
to participants with wild-type viruses, those who only harbored minority variants, either 2–9…

[PDF][PDF] Frequent antiviral treatment failures in patients infected with hepatitis C virus genotype 4, subtype 4r

S Fourati, C Rodriguez, C Hézode, A Soulier… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… In addition, in patient 2, the WT L31 was detected in 21% of viral variants by deep sequencing,
whereas only L31M had been reported by population sequencing (Fig. 2D). These results …

Oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19: opportunities and challenges

L Rahmah, SO Abarikwu, AG Arero, M Essouma… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - Springer
treatment [18], although their efficacy can be dramatically impacted by the currently circulating
viral variant … will no longer harbor the contagious virus, and instead of antiviral therapy, the …

Failure of dolutegravir first-line ART with selection of virus carrying R263K and G118R

N Lübke, B Jensen, F Hüttig, T Feldt… - … England Journal of …, 2019 - Mass Medical Soc
… who had not previously received antiretroviral treatment (ART) and … of HIV-1, 3 a high viral
load and low CD4 cell count, 5 … variants — in this case, variants carrying R263K and G118R. …

Update and latest advances in antiretroviral therapy

L Menéndez-Arias, R Delgado - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2022 - cell.com
… The aim of HIV treatments is to reduce viral loads to undetectable levels. Antiretroviral drugs
act by different mechanisms of action, while targeting various steps in the HIV replication …

A highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands

C Wymant, D Bezemer, F Blanquart, L Ferretti, A Gall… - Science, 2022 - science.org
… Successful treatment with antiretroviral drugs suppresses viral load and interrupts the … this
viral variant as the “VB variant” (for virulent subtype B), to individuals infected with this variant

[HTML][HTML] HIV-1 variants are archived throughout infection and persist in the reservoir

K Brooks, BR Jones, DA Dilernia, DJ Wilkins… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The HIV-1 reservoir consists of latently infected cells that persist despite antiretroviral therapy
… of proviral variants in the reservoir were most closely related to viral variants from the latest …