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Shirasaka, T. et al.

Changes in drug sensitivity of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 during therapy with azidothymidine, dideoxycytidine, and dideoxyinosine: an in vitro comparative study.

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) strains were isolated from nine patients before and after prolonged therapy with either an alternating regimen of 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) and 2',3'-dideoxycytidine (ddC) (AZT/ddC) or 2',3'-dideoxyinosine (ddI) alone. All strains obtained from four patients who received AZT/ddC for up to 41 mo were highly insensitive to AZT in vitro. Only one strain obtained after AZT/ddC therapy showed reduced susceptibility to ddC in addition to AZT and had previously unreported amino acid substitutions in the viral polymerase-encoding pol region, whereas three other strains had one or more of the five previously reported AZT-related mutations. In five HIV-1 strains from patients who received ddI for up to 29 mo, no appreciable decrease in sensitivity to ddI was detected. Two strains isolated after ddI therapy had no significant amino acid mutations, although three strains had a mutation reportedly associated with ddI administration. These data suggest that HIV-1 develops reduced susceptibility to AZT more readily than to ddC and ddI and/or that the reduced susceptibility to ddC and ddI is modest in degree. Moreover, the present data suggest that an alternating regimen of AZT and ddC does not block the emergence of AZT-insensitive variants. It should be noted, however, that the current results do not provide a basis for concluding that AZT/ddC or ddI is inferior, equivalent, or superior to AZT as therapy of AIDS.[1]

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Changes in drug sensitivity of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 during therapy with azidothymidine, dideoxycytidine, and dideoxyinosine: an in vitro comparative study. Shirasaka, T., Yarchoan, R., O'Brien, M.C., Husson, R.N., Anderson, B.D., Kojima, E., Shimada, T., Broder, S., Mitsuya, H. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1993) [Pubmed]

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