title: The role of phenotyping and replication capacity in anti-HIV therapeutics.
abstract: The management of antiretroviral-experienced and -naive HIV-infected patients is becoming increasingly complex with the emergence of multidrug-resistant viruses and with the inter-relationships between numerous virological, immunological and therapeutic factors. In addition to standard surrogate markers of peripheral CD4+ T-cell counts and plasma viral loads, viral resistance phenotype, replication capacity and genotype assays serve as objective measures of viral properties, which presumably reflect, to a certain degree, what is occurring in vivo. This review explores the principles behind, and the basic science and clinical evidence supporting the application of viral resistance phenotypic assays and replication capacity assays in the therapeutic management of HIV disease.
authors.affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine, Section of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, 6621 Fannin, MC: FC 330.01, Houston TX 77030, USA. csbaliga@TexasChildrensHospital.org
authors.forename: Christopher S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Baliga
authors.forename: Richard E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Sutton
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy / Q000821:virology*; D023241:Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active; D000998:Antiviral Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018791:CD4 Lymphocyte Count; D024882:Drug Resistance, Viral / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D006678:HIV / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000502:physiology*; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D019562:Viral Load; D014779:Virus Replication / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000998:Antiviral Agents