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Higher levels of drug resistance seen after first-line NNRTI failure than boosted PI failure: meta-analysis

In a meta-analysis of data from nearly 8000 patients reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases, researchers found significantly fewer drug resistance mutations, including NRTI-associated mutations, in people who had experienced treatment failure while taking first-line HIV treatment based on boosted PIs than in people taking NNRTI-based therapy.

Genotypic NNRTI resistance was much more common than PI resistance. The NRTI-associated M184V and (in non-AZT-containing regimens) K65R mutation were also more common in cases of NNRTI failure than of PI failure. These data were drawn from a meta-analysis of participants in 20 clinical trials for whom first-line treatment failure was seen after 48 weeks or less.

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