Genomic-informed pathogen surveillance in Africa: opportunities and challenges

SC Inzaule, SK Tessema, Y Kebede… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2021 - thelancet.com
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to incorporate pathogen
genomics for enhanced disease surveillance and outbreak management in Africa. The …

[HTML][HTML] Technologies for HIV-1 drug resistance testing: inventory and needs

KJ Metzner - Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 2022 - journals.lww.com
The use of NGS technologies on HIV DR testing will allow unprecedented insights into
genomic structures of virus populations that may be of immediate relevance to both clinical …

HIV drug resistance in the era of contemporary antiretroviral therapy: A clinical perspective

A Carr, NE Mackie, R Paredes… - Antiviral …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Contemporary antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens have high barriers to the development
of drug resistance. However, resistance to earlier antiretrovirals and uncommon cases of …

Frequency matters: comparison of drug resistance mutation detection by Sanger and next-generation sequencing in HIV-1

S Balakrishna, T Loosli, M Zaheri… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is gradually replacing Sanger sequencing
(SS) as the primary method for HIV genotypic resistance testing. However, there are limited …

Are we ready for NGS HIV drug resistance testing? The second “winnipeg consensus” symposium

H Ji, P Sandstrom, R Paredes, PR Harrigan… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
HIV drug resistance is a major global challenge to successful and sustainable antiretroviral
therapy. Next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) assays …

Molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 in Ghana: subtype distribution, drug resistance and coreceptor usage

A Appah, CJ Beelen, D Kirkby, W Dong, A Shahid… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The greatest HIV-1 genetic diversity is found in West/Central Africa due to the pandemic's
origins in this region, but this diversity remains understudied. We characterized HIV-1 …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of Different HIV-1 Resistance Interpretation Tools for Next-Generation Sequencing in Italy

D Armenia, L Carioti, V Micheli, I Bon, T Allice… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is gradually replacing Sanger sequencing
for HIV genotypic drug resistance testing (GRT). This work evaluated the concordance …

HIV-1 Drug Resistance Detected by Next-Generation Sequencing among ART-Naïve Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

F Ouyang, D Yuan, W Zhai, S Liu, Y Zhou, H Yang - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: There are an increasing number of articles focused on the prevalence and
clinical impact of pretreatment HIV drug resistance (PDR) detected by Sanger sequencing …

Impact of Low-Frequency Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Drug Resistance Mutations on Antiretroviral Therapy Outcomes

RM Burdorf, S Zhou, C Amon, N Long… - The Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background The association between low-frequency human immunodeficiency virus type 1
(HIV-1) drug resistance mutations (DRMs) and treatment failure (TF) is controversial. We …

Integrase strand transfer inhibitor resistance in integrase strand transfer inhibitor-naive persons

AJ Bailey, SY Rhee, RW Shafer - AIDS Research and Human …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
There has been no systematic review of the prevalence of transmitted integrase strand
transfer inhibitor (INSTI) resistance. We systematically searched the English-language …