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Mazzuti L, Melengu T, Falasca F, Calabretto M, Cella E, Ciccozzi M, Mezzaroma I, Iaiani G, Spaziante M, d'Ettorre G, Fimiani C, Vullo V, Antonelli G, Turriziani O. Transmitted drug resistance mutations and trends of HIV-1 subtypes in treatment-naïve patients: A single-centre experience. J Glob Antimicrob Resist 2019; 20:298-303. [PMID: 31518723 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2019.08.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2019] [Revised: 07/12/2019] [Accepted: 08/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Transmitted drug resistance (TDR) and HIV-1 genetic diversity may affect treatment efficacy and clinical outcomes. Here we describe the circulating viral subtypes and estimate the prevalence of drug resistance among antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naïve patients attending Sapienza University Hospital (Rome, Italy) from 2006-2017. METHODS Genotypic resistance testing (GRT) was performed on 668 ART-naïve patients for integrase (n = 52), protease and reverse transcriptase (n = 668) sequences. RESULTS Twenty-one different HIV-1 subtypes and circulating recombinant forms (CRFs) were identified. Subtype B was the most common (67.1%), followed by CRF02_AG (8.4%), and subtypes C and F (both 6.0%). A significantly increase in the proportion of non-B strains (P < 0.001) and the rate of non-Italian patients was observed over time. The overall prevalence of TDR was 9.4% (NRTI, 4.2%; NNRTI, 5.8%; and PI, 1.0%) and was higher in subtype B strains. Transmitted INSTI mutations (Q148H and G140S) responsible for high-level resistance to raltegravir and elvitegravir and intermediate resistance to dolutegravir and bictegravir were found, for the first time, in two individuals. Minor or accessory INSTI mutations were detected in 17.3% of patients. No significant decrease in the prevalence of TDR was documented over time. CONCLUSION The significant increase in non-B subtypes suggests that the molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 is changing. Detection of a major INSTI mutation in two ART-naïve patients highlights the importance of performing GRT before commencing treatment. This finding and the lack of a significant reduction in TDRs underline the importance of continuous surveillance of resistance mutations.
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- Laura Mazzuti
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Medical Statistics and Molecular Epidemiology, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Medical Statistics and Molecular Epidemiology, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Etta EM, Mavhandu L, Manhaeve C, McGonigle K, Jackson P, Rekosh D, Hammarskjold ML, Bessong PO, Tebit DM. High level of HIV-1 drug resistance mutations in patients with unsuppressed viral loads in rural northern South Africa. AIDS Res Ther 2017; 14:36. [PMID: 28750647 PMCID: PMC5531022 DOI: 10.1186/s12981-017-0161-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2017] [Accepted: 07/19/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has significantly reduced HIV morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries. However, the sustainability of cART may be compromised by the emergence of viral drug resistance mutations (DRM) and the cellular persistence of proviruses carrying these DRM. This is potentially a more serious problem in resource limited settings. Methods DRM were evaluated in individuals with unsuppressed viral loads after first or multiple lines of cART at two sites in rural Limpopo, South Africa. Seventy-two patients with viral loads of >1000 copies/ml were recruited between March 2014 and December 2015. Complete protease (PR) and partial Reverse Transcriptase (RT) sequences were amplified from both plasma RNA and paired proviral DNA from 35 of these subjects. Amplicons were directly sequenced to determine subtype and DRM using the Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Interpretation algorithm. Results Among the 72 samples, 69 could be PCR amplified from RNA and 35 from both RNA and DNA. Sixty-five (94.2%) viruses were subtype C, while one was subtype B (1.4%), one recombinant K/C, one recombinant C/B and one unclassified. Fifty-eight (84%) sequences carried at least one DRM, while 11 (15.9%) displayed no DRM. DRM prevalence according to drug class was: NRTI 60.8% NNRTI 65.2%, and PI 5.8%. The most common DRMs were; M184V (51.7%), K103N (50%), V106M (20.6%), D67N (13.3%), K65R (12%). The frequency of the DRM tracked well with the frequency of use of medications to which the mutations were predicted to confer resistance. Interestingly, a significant number of subjects showed predicted resistance to the newer NNRTIs, etravirine (33%) and rilpivirine (42%), both of which are not yet available in this setting. The proportion of DRM in RNA and DNA were mostly similar with the exception of the thymidine analogue mutations (TAMs) D67N, K70R, K219QE; and K103N which were slightly more prevalent in DNA than RNA. Subjects who had received cART for at least 5 years were more likely to harbour >2 DRM (p < 0.05) compared to those treated for a shorter period. DRM were more prevalent in this rural setting compared to a neighbouring urban setting. Conclusion We found a very high prevalence of NRTI and NNRTI DRM in patients from rural Limpopo settings with different durations of treatment. The prevalence was significantly higher than those reported in urban settings in South Africa. The dominance of NNRTI based mutations late in treatment supports the use of PI based regimens for second line treatment in this setting. The slight dominance of TAMs in DNA from infected PBMCs compared to plasma virus requires further studies that should include cART subjects with suppressed virus. Such studies will improve our understanding of the pattern of drug resistance and dynamics of viral persistence in these rural settings.
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Montagna C, Mazzuti L, Falasca F, Maida P, Bucci M, D'Ettorre G, Mezzaroma I, Fantauzzi A, Alvaro N, Vullo V, Antonelli G, Turriziani O. Trends in drug resistance-associated mutations in a real-life cohort of Italian patients infected with HIV-1. J Glob Antimicrob Resist 2015; 3:267-272. [PMID: 27842871 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2015.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2015] [Revised: 06/26/2015] [Accepted: 07/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Recent studies support the idea that human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) drug resistance is declining in developed countries. To help assess the current situation in Italy, the dynamics of drug resistance mutations in pol and integrase genes in plasma samples from HIV-1-positive patients attending Sapienza University Hospital, Rome, from 2003 to 2014 were analysed. In total, 1730 genotype resistance tests (GRTs) were retrospectively analysed. The prevalence of major drug resistance mutations (DRMs) was evaluated over time in the global population and in patients with antiretroviral therapy (ART) failure. Population dynamics, changes in ART administration, and HIV-1 RNA levels were analysed in combination with DRM trends. The global population showed a strong reduction in major DRMs to all drug classes. Over the 2003-2014 decade, resistance to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) and protease inhibitors (PIs) declined from 80.0% to 18.7%, from 42.8% to 20.1% and from 74.2% to 8.3%, respectively (P<0.005 for all comparisons). However, only PI-associated mutations showed a significant decrease in patients experiencing ART failure. Interestingly, analysis of the integrase gene disclosed an increased resistance to integrase inhibitors, mainly regarding N155H, detected in 32.6% of raltegravir-treated patients in 2012-2014. In conclusion, in line with previous findings, this study shows that drug resistance is declining in Italy. However, the persistence of DRMs to NRTIs and NNRTIs suggests that despite adherence and treatment optimisation, some patients still experience therapy failure, emphasising the need for GRTs both in naïve and ART-failed patients.
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- Claudia Montagna
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Viale di Porta Tiburtina 28, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Viale di Porta Tiburtina 28, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Viale di Porta Tiburtina 28, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Viale di Porta Tiburtina 28, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Viale di Porta Tiburtina 28, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Viale di Porta Tiburtina 28, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Viale di Porta Tiburtina 28, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Viale di Porta Tiburtina 28, 00185 Rome, Italy.
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Falasca F, Montagna C, Maida P, Bucci M, Fantauzzi A, Mezzaroma I, Antonelli G, Turriziani O. Analysis of intracellular human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 drug resistance mutations in multi-failed HIV-1-infected patients treated with a salvage regimen: 72-week follow-up. Clin Microbiol Infect 2013; 19:E318-21. [PMID: 23438096 DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2012] [Revised: 12/28/2012] [Accepted: 01/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) mutational archive of proviral DNA was monitored during a 72-week follow-up in 20 multidrug-experienced HIV-1-infected patients treated with a darunavir/ritonavir-based salvage therapy. At the beginning of the study, all patients harboured a number of intracellular drug resistance-associated mutations (RAMs) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells. In some patients, a significant fluctuation in the number of RAMs was observed during the observation period. However, all patients, notwithstanding the presence or the fluctuation of intracellular RAMs, showed a persistently undetectable viraemia. The data suggest that the archived resistant viral variants change during suppressive therapy, but that the variants are unable to re-emerge and to affect virological response.
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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Shults K, Flye-Blakemore L, Patterson BK, Elbeik T. Analysis of multiple cell reservoirs expressing unspliced HIV-1 gag-pol mRNA in patients on antiretroviral therapy. Future Virol 2012; 7:819-832. [PMID: 23125871 DOI: 10.2217/fvl.12.69] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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AIMS: Longitudinal percentage change of eight HIV-1 gag-pol mRNA cellular reservoirs from HIV-infected subjects on antiretroviral therapy was ascertained by simultaneous ultrasensitive subpopulation staining/hybridization in situ (SUSHI). MATERIALS #ENTITYSTARTX00026; METHODS: Serial peripheral blood mononuclear cells were taken from three subjects with treatment success, limited response and viral breakthrough plasma viral load (PVL) profiles. SUSHI was carried out on monocytes, macrophages, CD4(+) cells and naive, memory and activated T-cell reservoirs followed with broad light scatter flow cytometry. RESULTS: All gag-pol(+) reservoirs declined in the treatment success patient and similar to PVL. Only some gag-pol(+) reservoirs responded similarly to PVL for the limited treatment patient, and most gag-pol(+) reservoirs increased 16 weeks prior to PVL breakthrough in the viral breakthrough patient. CONCLUSION: SUSHI measures changes in a wide range of gag-pol(+) reservoirs in response to antiretroviral therapy.
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- Keith Shults
- LabCorp Clinical Trials, Advanced Cytometric Applications, Brentwood, TN, USA ; IncellDx Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USA
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Turriziani O, Andreoni M, Antonelli G. Resistant viral variants in cellular reservoirs of human immunodeficiency virus infection. Clin Microbiol Infect 2010; 16:1518-24. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03329.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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