The presence of a mutation that causes resistance to lamivudine and emtricitabine did not increase the risk of viral rebound in the vast majority of people with HIV who switched to a two-drug regimen of dolutegravir/lamivudine when virally suppressed, French researchers report in the Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance.
But the researchers say that they are concerned about the risk of viral rebound in a subset of people with lamivudine or emtricitabine resistance – those who had only been virally suppressed for a short time before switching to two-drug treatment containing lamivudine.
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