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SUBMITTER: Chimukangara B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6360398 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chimukangara Benjamin B Kharsany Ayesha B M ABM Lessells Richard J RJ Naidoo Kogieleum K Rhee Soo-Yon SY Manasa Justen J Gräf Tiago T Lewis Lara L Cawood Cherie C Khanyile David D Diallo Karidia K Ayalew Kassahun A KA Shafer Robert W RW Hunt Gillian G Pillay Deenan D Abdool Salim Karim SK de Oliveira Tulio T
AIDS research and human retroviruses 20190107 2
There is evidence of increasing levels of pretreatment HIV drug resistance (PDR) in Southern Africa. We used data from two large population-based HIV surveillance studies to estimate prevalence of PDR in KwaZulu-Natal, the province with the highest HIV prevalence in South Africa. Sanger sequencing was performed on samples obtained from a longitudinal HIV surveillance program (study A, 2013-2014) and the HIV Incidence Provincial Surveillance System (study B, 2014-2015). Sequences were included fo ...[more]