Robert W. Shafer

Publication Details

• HIV-1 drug resistance genotype results in patients with plasma samples with HIV-1 RNA levels less than 75 copies/mL.

  Mitsuya Y, Winters MA, Fessel WJ, Rhee SY, Slome S, Flamm J, Horberg M, Hurley L, Klein D, Shafer RW. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2006; 43 (1): 56-9

  HIV-1 genotypic resistance test results were obtained on clinical samples from 116 patients with plasma HIV-1 RNA levels of less than 75 copies/mL. Genotype validity was confirmed in 49 of 50 patients with a previous or follow-up genotype. The belief that genotypic resistance testing is unreliable in samples with low-level viremia should be reassessed.

  PubMedID: 16885777