Resistance test welcomed, with caution. (Murex Technologies Corp.'s LiPA HIV-1 RT test)(includes related information on principles of HIV resistance)

AIDS Alert | October 1, 1997 | Copyright

Hailed as a breakthrough in HIV treatment, an HIV drug resistance test has been launched worldwide, sending out ripples of confusion as well as excitement among clinicians and patients. AIDS researchers caution, however, that resistance testing is in its infancy and has only a limited clinical usefulness at this time.

The value of a reliable HIV resistance test has grown considerably in the past few months as increased reports of drug failures make the headlines. In Atlanta, for example, as many as one-fourth of patients, many of them healthy at the time of ...

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