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200 mg of Prevention

One year after a short course of zidovudine was reported effective in preventing perinatal transmission of HIV, a joint Uganda-US study has identified a safe, more affordable, shorter course beginning at labor using nevirapine that reduces the transmission rate by nearly half, when compared with a similar regimen of AZT. Preliminary results of the study ...... Full Article 3.1 MBytes (Sept, 1999)

Genotypic and Phenotypic Assays for HIV-1 Drug Resistance

The virus population in an HIV-1 infected individual has quasispecies nature just like any other RNA viruses. So-called quasispecies refers to the existence of genetically distinct viral variants that evolve from the initial virus inoculum. For retroviruses, such as HIV-1, this is mainly ..... Full Article 2.8 MBytes (Oct, 1999)