scholarly journals Selection of Drug‐Resistant Variants in the Female Genital Tract of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1–Infected Women Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy

2000 ◽  
Vol 182 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Si‐Mohamed ◽  
Michel D. Kazatchkine ◽  
Isabelle Heard ◽  
Christophe Goujon ◽  
Thierry Prazuck ◽  
...  
2000 ◽  
Vol 181 (6) ◽  
pp. 1950-1956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Lawn ◽  
Shambavi Subbarao ◽  
Thomas C. Wright, Jr. ◽  
Tammy Evans‐Strickfaden ◽  
Tedd V. Ellerbrock ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 894-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Cu‐Uvin ◽  
Joseph W. Hogan ◽  
Angela M. Caliendo ◽  
Joseph Harwell ◽  
Kenneth H. Mayer ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Vol 179 (4) ◽  
pp. 871-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clyde E. Hart ◽  
Jeffrey L. Lennox ◽  
Melody Pratt‐Palmore ◽  
Thomas C. Wright ◽  
Raymond F. Schinazi ◽  
...  

2000 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 3822-3824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Baron ◽  
James Bremer ◽  
Steven S. Wasserman ◽  
Marek Nowicki ◽  
Barbara Driscoll ◽  
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) was detected in the genital tracts of 59% of 225 women by RNA PCR and in 7% of the women by culture. In a comparison of two sampling methods, endocervical swabs were more sensitive than cervicovaginal lavage for HIV-1 RNA detection by PCR but not by culture and their sensitivity was independent of the concentration of HIV-1 RNA.


2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 353-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Philpott ◽  
Harold Burger ◽  
Christos Tsoukas ◽  
Brian Foley ◽  
Kathryn Anastos ◽  
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ABSTRACT Investigation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in the genital tract of women is crucial to the development of vaccines and therapies. Previous analyses of HIV-1 in various anatomic sites have documented compartmentalization, with viral sequences from each location that were distinct yet phylogenetically related. Full-length RNA genomes derived from different compartments in the same individual, however, have not yet been studied. Furthermore, although there is evidence that intrapatient recombination may occur frequently, recombinants comprising viruses from different sites within one individual have rarely been documented. We compared full-length HIV-1 RNA sequences in the plasma and female genital tract, focusing on a woman with high HIV-1 RNA loads in each compartment who had been infected heterosexually and then transmitted HIV-1 by the same route. We cloned and sequenced 10 full-length HIV-1 RNA genomes from her genital tract and 10 from her plasma. We also compared viral genomes from the genital tract and plasma of four additional heterosexually infected women, sequencing 164 env and gag clones obtained from the two sites. Four of five women, including the one whose complete viral sequences were determined, displayed compartmentalized HIV-1 genomes. Analyses of full-length, compartmentalized sequences made it possible to document complex intrapatient HIV-1 recombinants that were composed of alternating viral sequences characteristic of each site. These findings demonstrate that the genital tract and blood harbor genetically distinct populations of replicating HIV-1 and provide evidence that recombination between strains from the two compartments contributes to rapid evolution of viral sequence variation in infected individuals.


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