Publications by authors named "Shield Study Team"
Purpose: to evaluate raltegravir plus abacavir/lamivudine in antiretroviral-naïve, HIV-1-infected patients.
Methods: SHIELD is an ongoing 96-week pilot study of abacavir/lamivudine 600 mg/300 mg once daily with raltegravir 400 mg twice daily among HLA-B*5701-negative adults with screening viral load (VL) > 1,000 copies/mL. HBsAg+ patients were excluded, as were patients with key mutation(s) to any study drug.