1. Long-term efficacy of routine access to antiretroviral-resistance testing in HIV type 1-infected patients: results of the clinical efficacy of resistance testing trial.
- Author
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Wegner SA, Wallace MR, Aronson NE, Tasker SA, Blazes DL, Tamminga C, Fraser S, Dolan MJ, Stephan KT, Michael NL, Jagodzinski LL, Vahey MT, Gilcrest JL, Tracy L, Milazzo MJ, Murphy DJ, McKenna P, Hertogs K, Rinehart A, Larder B, and Birx DL
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- Adult, Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active, Female, Humans, Male, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Time Factors, Treatment Failure, Anti-HIV Agents therapeutic use, Drug Resistance, Viral, HIV Infections drug therapy, HIV-1 drug effects
- Abstract
The long-term efficacy of making resistance testing routinely available to clinicians has not been established. We conducted a clinical trial at 6 US military hospitals in which volunteers infected with human immunodeficiency virus type-1 were randomized to have routine access to phenotype resistance testing (PT arm), access to genotype resistance testing (GT arm), or no access to either test (VB arm). The primary outcome measure was time to persistent treatment failure despite change(s) in antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen. Overall, routine access to resistance testing did not significantly increase the time to end point. Time to end point was significantly prolonged in the PT arm for subjects with a history of treatment with > or =4 different ART regimens or a history of treatment with nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors before the study, compared with that in the VB arm. These results suggest that routine access to resistance testing can improve long-term virologic outcomes in HIV-infected patients who are treatment experienced but may not impact outcome in patients who are naive to or have had limited experience with ART.
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- 2004
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