Virologic Responses To New Nucleoside Regimens After Prolonged ZDV or ddI Monotherapy

Summary

To elucidate the relationship between virologic risk factors and immunologic and clinical progression in patients receiving monotherapy in protocol ACTG 175, and to compare new treatment regimens with combinations of reverse transcriptase inhibitors in long-term recipients of monotherapy. Specifically, to determine, in patients who have been taking zidovudine (AZT) alone for a long time, whether it is beneficial to add lamivudine (3TC) to AZT or to switch to d4T alone, and also to determine, in patients who have been taking didanosine (ddI) alone for a long time, whether it is beneficial to add AZT or AZT/3TC to ddI. Characteristics of virus replication, pathogenicity, and resistance are thought to determine the durability of virologic and clinical response to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Previous results of ACTG 175 suggest that either a switch to ddI or addition of ddI in patients receiving AZT results in better clinical, virologic, and CD4 cell response compared to continuation of AZT alone.

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1998-05

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• Background Shulman NS, Machekano RA, Shafer RW, Winters MA, Zolopa AR, Liou SH, Hughes M, Katzenstein DA; AIDS Clinical Trials Group 302 Study Team. Genotypic correlates of a virologic response to stavudine after zidovudine monotherapy. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2001 Aug 1;27(4):377-80. doi: 10.1097/00126334-200108010-00008.
• Background Katzenstein DA, Hughes M, Albrecht M, Hammer S, Para M, Murphy R, Valdez H, Haubrich R, Liou S. Virologic and CD4+ cell responses to new nucleoside regimens: switching to stavudine or adding lamivudine after prolonged zidovudine treatment of human immunodeficiency virus infection. ACTG 302 Study Team. AIDS Clinical Trials Group. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2000 Jul 20;16(11):1031-7. doi: 10.1089/08892220050075282.
• Background Shulman NS, Hughes MD, Winters MA, Shafer RW, Zolopa AR, Hellmann NS, Bates M, Whitcomb JM, Katzenstein DA. Subtle decreases in stavudine phenotypic susceptibility predict poor virologic response to stavudine monotherapy in zidovudine-experienced patients. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2002 Oct 1;31(2):121-7. doi: 10.1097/00126334-200210010-00001.

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