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ReviewClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2025

Utilizing HIV Proviral DNA to Assess for the Presence of HIV Drug Resistance.

Annemarie M Wensing, Charlotte Charpentier, Vincent Calvez, Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein, Huldrych F Günthard, Donna M Jacobsen, Roger Paredes, Robert W Shafer, Douglas D Richman

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Review in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Resistance Analysis of Weekly Islatravir Plus Lenacapavir in People With HIV at 48 Weeks.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Annemarie M WensingDepartment of Global Health and Bio-Ethics, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3790-8891
Charlotte CharpentierDepartment of Virology, Paris Cité University and Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France.
Vincent CalvezDepartment of Virology, Sorbonne Université School of Medicine, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié Salpêtrière-Charles Foix, Laboratoire de Virologie, Paris, France.ORCID 0009-0002-6855-3472
Francesca Ceccherini-SilbersteinDepartment of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
Huldrych F GünthardDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich and Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1142-6723
Donna M JacobsenInternational Antiviral Society-USA, San Francisco, California, USA.
Roger ParedesDepartment of Infectious Diseases and irsiCaixa, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6553-691X
Robert W ShaferDepartment of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
Douglas D RichmanDepartments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0962-9254

Funding

HIV Drug Resistance DatabaseR24AI136618 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ROBERT William SHAFER · 2018 to 2026
$7.3M
IASNIAID NIH HHS R24 AI136618Society
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The improved efficacy and tolerability of newer antiretroviral drugs, as well as the introduction of long-acting regimens, have prompted more frequent therapy switches in individuals on suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART). For these individuals, the assessment of HIV drug resistance using DNA from peripheral blood lymphocytes has become increasingly popular. However, compared with HIV RNA-based analyses, implementation of HIV DNA testing as an alternative approach in clinical care requires new documented quality-assessment procedures and clinical validation. Furthermore, the use of HIV DNA to assess drug resistance has some distinct technical and biologic challenges that are relevant to the clinical management of people with HIV. This Viewpoint article addresses the issues relevant to clinical virologists and treating physicians for the interpretation of drug-resistance testing or subtype assessment based on DNA analysis, when HIV RNA genotypic assessment is not possible.

Indexed as

Anti-HIV AgentsDNA, ViralDrug Resistance, ViralHIVHIV-1HIV InfectionsProvirusesHumansAnti-HIV AgentsDNA, Viralantiretroviral drugsdrug resistanceHIV-1long-acting drug regimenproviral DNA testing

Identifiers

PMID40176204
PMCPMC12596415

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