Publications by authors named "Suzon Drumard"
Article Synopsis
- An in-depth study of HIV requires patient-derived viruses from viral cultures, but current methods struggle with low recovery rates, especially for HIV-2, which often presents with low viral loads.
- New methods, like the μMACS VitalVirus Isolation Kit, claim to enhance viral recovery using a simpler and faster process that reduces sample volume and purification time.
- The study showed that while the new purification method improved recovery rates for HIV-2 isolates significantly, it did not yield the same benefits for HIV-1, indicating a potential difference in how HIV-2 interacts with the isolation technique.
The aim of this study was to describe HIV-2 R5/X4-tropism distribution in antiretroviral-naive HIV-2-infected patients. Population sequencing of the gp105 region was performed on peripheral blood mononuclear cells issued from 151 antiretroviral-naive patients. Tropism was successfully determined in 46 of 151 samples (30%) with six of 46 (13%) X4-tropic viruses.
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