Wednesday, December 30, 2015

HIV-1 Drug Resistance Mutations: Potential Applications for Point-of-Care Genotypic Resistance Testing

The increasing prevalence of acquired and transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance is an obstacle to successful antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) hardest hit by the HIV-1 pandemic. 

Genotypic drug resistance testing could facilitate the choice of initial ART in areas with rising transmitted drug resistance (TDR) and enable care-providers to determine which individuals with virological failure (VF) on a first- or second-line ART regimen require a change in treatment. An inexpensive near point-of-care (POC) genotypic resistance test would be useful in settings where the resources, capacity, and infrastructure to perform standard genotypic drug resistance testing are limited. Such a test would be particularly useful in conjunction with the POC HIV-1 viral load tests that are currently being introduced in LMICs. 

A POC genotypic resistance test is likely to involve the use of allele-specific point mutation assays for detecting drug-resistance mutations (DRMs). This study proposes that two major nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI)-associated DRMs (M184V and K65R) and four major NNRTI-associated DRMs (K103N, Y181C, G190A, and V106M) would be the most useful for POC genotypic resistance testing in LMIC settings. One or more of these six DRMs was present in 61.2% of analyzed virus sequences from ART-naïve individuals with intermediate or high-level TDR and 98.8% of analyzed virus sequences from individuals on a first-line NRTI/NNRTI-containing regimen with intermediate or high-level acquired drug resistance. 

The detection of one or more of these DRMs in an ART-naïve individual or in a individual with VF on a first-line NRTI/NNRTI-containing regimen may be considered an indication for a protease inhibitor (PI)-containing regimen or closer virological monitoring based on cost-effectiveness or country policy.

Below:  Absolute and Cumulative Prevalence of Major Lopinavir-Associated Mutations in 203 Viruses with Intermediate or High-Level Lopinavir (LPV) Resistance from 1,214 Previously PI-Naïve Individuals with Virological Failure on a Ritonavir-Boosted LPV (LPV/r)-Containing Regimen.



Full article at:   http://goo.gl/moEYwZ

By:   
Soo-Yon Rhee, David Katzenstein, Michele Tang, Robert W. Shafer
Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Michael R. Jordan
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America

Elliot Raizes, Chunfu Yang
Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Arlene Chua
Medecins Sans Frontieres, Access Campaign, Geneva, Switzerland

Arlene Chua
Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Neil Parkin
Data First Consulting, Belmont, CA, United States of America

Rami Kantor
Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America

Gert U. Van Zyl
National Health Laboratory Service, Tygerberg, Coastal Branch, South Africa

Gert U. Van Zyl
Division of Medical Virology, Stellenbosch University, Parow, South Africa

Irene Mukui
National AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya

Mina C. Hosseinipour
UNC Project, Lilongwe, Malawi

Lisa M. Frenkel
University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Nicaise Ndembi
Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria

Raph L. Hamers, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit
Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Carole L. Wallis
Lancet Laboratories and BARC-SA, Johannesburg, South Africa

Ravindra K. Gupta
Department of Infection, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Joseph Fokam
Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Joseph Fokam
Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMBS) of the University of Yaounde 1, Yaounde, Cameroon

Clement Zeh
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jonathan M. Schapiro
National Hemophilia Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Sergio Carmona
Department of Haematology and Molecular Medicine, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Sergio Carmona
National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa

Avelin F. Aghokeng
Virology Laboratory CREMER-IMPM, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Tulio De Oliveira
Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Annemarie M. J. Wensing
Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Joel E. Gallant
Southwest CARE Center, Santa Fe, NM, United States of America

Mark A. Wainberg
McGill University AIDS Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Douglas D. Richman
Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Douglas D. Richman
Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Joseph E. Fitzgibbon
Drug Development and Clinical Sciences Branch, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Marco Schito
HJF-DAIDS, A Division of The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Silvia Bertagnolio
HIV Department WHO, Geneva, Switzerland



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