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Article: Stanford Researchers Present New Findings On Drug Resistance At World AIDS Conference.
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- July 9, 2002
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Two Stanford researchers addressed the challenge of drug resistance in AIDS care and how doctors treat their patients with medication. In the first study, researchers investigated how well doctors can predict which patients are likely to develop resistance to AIDS drugs. In the second, researchers studied how different subtypes of the HIV virus develop drug resistance. The presentations were made at the ongoing World AIDS Conference in Barcelona this week.
Drug resistance is a major concern in AIDS treatment. Up to 80 percent of patients have developed some level of resistance, and a third of newly infected patients ...