| Literature DB >> 21148504 |
Jared M Baeten1, Jairam Lingappa, Ingrid Beck, Lisa M Frenkel, Gregory Pepper, Connie Celum, Anna Wald, Kenneth H Fife, Edwin Were, Nelly Mugo, Jorge Sanchez, Myron Essex, Joseph Makhema, James Kiarie, Carey Farquhar, Lawrence Corey.
Abstract
Recent in vitro studies suggest that acyclovir may directly inhibit HIV-1 replication and can select for a specific HIV-1 reverse transcriptase mutation (V75I) with concomitant loss of an anti-HIV-1 effect. We tested for HIV-1 genotypic resistance at reverse transcriptase codon 75 in plasma from 168 HIV-1-infected persons from Botswana, Kenya, Peru, and the United States taking daily acyclovir or valacyclovir for between 8 weeks and 24 months. No V75I cases were detected (95% confidence interval, 0%-2.2%). These prospective in vivo studies suggest that standard-dose acyclovir or valacyclovir does not select for HIV-1 resistance.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21148504 PMCID: PMC3024584 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiq013
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Dis ISSN: 0022-1899 Impact factor: 5.226