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ArticleJMIR formative research2022

An Android-Based Mobile App (ARVPredictor) for the Detection of HIV Drug-Resistance Mutations and Treatment at the Point of Care: Development Study.

Beatrice Ongadi, Raphael Lihana, John Kiiru, Musa Ngayo, George Obiero

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Beatrice OngadiCentre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6687-6927
Raphael Lihana *Centre for Virus Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1943-4920
John Kiiru *Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0571-5190
Musa Ngayo *Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2350-2890
George Obiero *Centre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0151-7103
Kenya Medical Research Institute · KEUniversity of Nairobi · KE

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Abstract

backgroundHIV/AIDS remains one of the major global human health challenges, especially in resource-limited environments. By 2017, over 77.3 million people were infected with the disease, and approximately 35.4 million individuals had already died from AIDS-related illnesses. Approximately 21.7 million people were accessing ART with significant clinical outcomes. However, numerous challenges are experienced in the delivery and accurate interpretation of data on patients with HIV data by various health care providers at different care levels. Mobile health (mHealth) technology is progressively making inroads into the health sector as well as medical research. Different mobile devices have become common in health care settings, leading to rapid growth in the development of downloadable software specifically designed to fulfill particular health-related purposes.

objectiveWe developed a mobile-based app called ARVPredictor and demonstrated that it can accurately define HIV-1 drug-resistance mutations in the HIV pol gene for use at the point of care.

methodsARVPredictor was designed using Android Studio with Java as the programming language and is compatible with both Android and iOS. The app system is hosted on Nginx Server, and network calls are built on PHP's Laravel framework handled by the Retrofit Library. The DigitalOcean offers a high-performance and stable cloud computing platform for ARVPredictor. This mobile app is enlisted in the Google Play Store as an "ARVPredictor" and the source code is available under MIT permissive license at a GitHub repository. To test for agreement between the ARVPredictor and Stanford HIV Database in detecting HIV subtype and NNRT and NRTI mutations, a total of 100 known HIV sequences were evaluated.

resultsThe mobile-based app (ARVPredictor) takes in a set of sequences or known mutations (protease, reverse transcriptase and integrase). It then returns inferred levels of resistance to selected nucleoside, nonnucleoside protease, and integrase inhibitors for accurate HIV/AIDS management at the point of care. The ARVPredictor identified similar HIV subtypes in 98/100 sequences compared with the Stanford HIV Database (κ=0.98, indicating near perfect agreement). There were 89/100 major NNRTI and NRTI mutations identified by ARVPredictor, similar to the Stanford HIV Database (κ=0.89, indicating near perfect agreement). Eight mutations classified as major by the Stanford HIV Database were classified as others by ARVPredictor.

conclusionsThe ARVPredictor largely agrees with the Stanford HIV Database in identifying both major and minor proteases, reverse transcriptase, and integrase mutations. The app can be conveniently used robustly at the point of care by HIV/AIDS care providers to improve the management of HIV infection.

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