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Volume 328:1163-1165 April 22, 1993 Number 16
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Primary Infection with Zidovudine-Resistant Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1
Alejo Erice, Douglas L. Mayers, David G. Strike, Kim J. Sannerud, Francine E. McCutchan, Keith Henry, and Henry H. Balfour

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Strains of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) with reduced sensitivity to zidovudine have been isolated from patients treated with this drug for six months or more1. Resistance to zidovudine is associated with late-stage disease, low CD4 lymphocyte counts, longer antiretroviral therapy, and specific mutations in the reverse transcriptase gene of HIV-12,3. The clinical importance of infections with resistant HIV-1 isolates is not well understood. We describe a patient with symptomatic HIV-1 infection who had primary infection with a virus resistant to zidovudine, according to both phenotypic and genotypic analyses.

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The patient was a 20-year-old homosexual man who . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Medicine, and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, and the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, Minneapolis (A.E., K.J.S., H.H.B.); the Naval Medical Research Institute and Division of Retrovirology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.{beta}(D.L.M.); the Henry M. Jackson Foundation Research Laboratory, Rockville, Md. (F.E.M.); Group Health Inc., Riverside Medical Center, Minneapolis (D.G.S.); and St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center, St. Paul, Minn. (K.H.). Presented at the 32nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Anaheim, Calif., October 13, 1992.

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