Successful antiretroviral therapy by using unusual antiretroviral combinations in heavily pre-treated patients: two case reports
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Rapid Screening of HIV Reverse Transcriptase and Integrase Inhibitors
Published on: April 9, 2014
Lucia Taramasso1, Chiara Dentone2, Anna Alessandrini1
1Infectious Diseases Unit, IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Abstract:
In the context of HIV-infected patients with several past antiretroviral therapies and multiple failures, it is possible to be faced with viruses resistant to all drug classes. We report on two HIV-1 infected patients in which the historical genotype showed mutations against all the major drug classes and in which viral suppression has been obtained by non-conventional antiretroviral therapy regimens, including the combination of darunavir at high dosage (800 mg bid), dolutegravir (50 mg bid) and a third agent, i.e. enfuvirtide in the first case and etravirine in the second one.
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