Clinical Relevance of Hiv Drug Resistance Testing Posted: 02-08-07 03:15am
Hiv-1 drug resistance is a significant
factor for treatment failure and drug
susceptibility testing is recommended by
u.S. And european treatment guidelines,
however, the interpretation of resistance
test results remains a challenge. An
urgent need for a more standardized
interpretation of resistance test results
in the clinical setting and in the drug
development process has been identified.
A standardized approach for a clinical
database derived definition of drug
resistance for each individual drug
requires extensive collaboration across
academia and industry. In addition,
issues related to standardization and
quality assurance of technologies and
reimbursement need to be addressed.
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jonathan_679
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Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Calfornia
Re:clinical Relevance of Hiv Drug Resistance Testing Posted: 02-08-07 06:59am
I personally feel that very little has
been done towards the development of hiv-1
drug resistance. Since hiv is a global
problem today more research work should
have been done and a huge expenditure made
by people of us and the government of us
has very little significance. A facts
have been revealed by john josefson in his
book “with a license to kill”
(presently available at http://www.Lulu.Com/content/5
87718 and also at amazon and barnes
& noble with isbn no.
978-1-84753-026-4 ).
