Abstract
To the Editor: Erice et al. (April 22 issue)1 described a patient with symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection who had a primary infection with a virus resistant to zidovudine. We report the case of a homosexual man in whom clinical symptoms of acute HIV-1 infection developed in May 1992; tests for HIV-1 antibodies were positive in July 1992. His most recent negative HIV-1 test was in November 1991. We studied the presence of genotypic mutations at codons 215 and 74 of the HIV pol gene – those associated with reduced sensitivity to zidovudine and didanosine, respectively. We…
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1123-1124 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | New England Journal of Medicine |
Volume | 329 |
Issue number | 15 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 7 1993 |