Evaluating drug resistance in HIV positive people
R. PRASAD The presence of drug resistant strains may be found even in HIV infected people who have never been on antiretroviral drugs Drug resistance may arise even when there is good compliance as the virus keeps mutating Of the 60 patients tested so far in a hospital in Chennai, 45 failed for the first-line drugs Transmitted resistance: In a study conducted at YRG Care, Chennai, of the 50 volunteers who had never been on antiretroviral drugs, about 14 per cent were found to have viruses with mutations that may lead to drug resistance.