Evaluation of Patients Who Have Not Had Success With Zidovudine

Summary

To determine the relationship of viral susceptibility to zidovudine (AZT) and baseline viral load (as determined by plasma viremia and quantitative endpoint dilution). To determine the relationship between viral load and susceptibility during different antiretroviral therapy strategies. To correlate measures of viral load and short term clinical and laboratory markers (such as weight, CD4 count, p24 antigenemia, and beta2 microglobulin) on the different therapy arms. High-grade resistance to AZT has been detected in HIV isolates from approximately 25 percent of individuals with AIDS who received AZT for at least 1 year. To elucidate the clinical significance of in vitro AZT resistance, it is necessary to distinguish between clinical failure caused by AZT resistance and clinical decompensation caused by other factors.

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1995-05

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• Background Cavert W, Coombs RW, Kuritzkes D, Grimes J, Stein D, Rojo W, Beatty C, Winters M, Corey L. Baseline zidovudine (ZDV) susceptibility, codon 215 mutation, viral load and syncytium-inducting characteristics(SI) of HIV isolates from ACTG protocol 194. Natl Conf Hum Retroviruses Relat Infect (1st). 1993 Dec 12-16:137
• Background Reichelderfer PS, Coombs RW. Multifactorial analysis of the inverse relationship between viral load and CD4+ cell count. Int Conf AIDS. 1996 Jul 7-12;11(2):277 (abstract no ThB4148)

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