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ReviewThe Journal of infectious diseases2006

Rationale and uses of a public HIV drug-resistance database.

Robert W Shafer

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Review in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 248 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
248citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

248 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 421 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Forecasting drug resistant HIV protease evolution.PLoS computational biology · 2026
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188 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert W ShaferDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. rshafer@stanford.edu
Stanford University · US

Funding

PUBLIC HIV DRUG RESISTANCE DATABASER01AI068581 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI SHAFER, ROBERT WILLIAM · 2006 to 2017
$6.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI068581
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Knowledge regarding the drug resistance of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is critical for surveillance of drug resistance, development of antiretroviral drugs, and management of infections with drug-resistant viruses. Such knowledge is derived from studies that correlate genetic variation in the targets of therapy with the antiretroviral treatments received by persons from whom the variant was obtained (genotype-treatment), with drug-susceptibility data on genetic variants (genotype-phenotype), and with virological and clinical response to a new treatment regimen (genotype-outcome). An HIV drug-resistance database is required to represent, store, and analyze the diverse forms of data underlying our knowledge of drug resistance and to make these data available to the broad community of researchers studying drug resistance in HIV and clinicians using HIV drug-resistance tests. Such genotype-treatment, genotype-phenotype, and genotype-outcome correlations are contained in the Stanford HIV RT and Protease Sequence Database and have specific usefulness.

Indexed as

Databases, FactualAnti-HIV AgentsClinical Trials as TopicDrug Resistance, ViralHIV-1HIV InfectionsHIV ProteaseHIV Reverse TranscriptaseHumansAnti-HIV AgentsHIV ProteaseHIV Reverse Transcriptase

Identifiers

PMID16921473
PMCPMC2614864
OpenAlexW2169790816

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