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- Title
Drug Resistance of a Viral Population and Its Individual Intrahost Variants During the First 48 Hours of Therapy.
- Authors
Campo, D S; Skums, P; Dimitrova, Z; Vaughan, G; Forbi, J C; Teo, C G; Khudyakov, Y; Lau, D T‐Y
- Abstract
Using hepatitis C virus (HCV) and interferon (IFN) resistance as a proof of concept, we have devised a new method for calculating the effect of a drug on a viral population, as well as the resistance of the population's individual intrahost variants. By means of next-generation sequencing, HCV variants were obtained from sera collected at nine time points from 16 patients during the first 48 h after injection of IFN-α. IFN-resistance coefficients were calculated for individual variants using changes in their relative frequencies, and for the entire intrahost viral population using changes in viral titer. Population-wide resistance and presence of IFN-resistant variants were highly associated with pegylated IFN-α2a/ribavirin treatment outcome at week 12 (P = 3.78 × 10−5 and 0.0114, respectively). This new method allows an accurate measurement of resistance based solely on changes in viral titer or the relative frequency of intrahost viral variants during a short observation time.
- Subjects
DRUG resistance in microorganisms; RIBAVIRIN; HEPATITIS C virus; VIRAL disease treatment; HEPATITIS C treatment; THERAPEUTIC use of interferons; EFFECT of drugs on viruses
- Publication
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2014, Vol 95, Issue 6, p627
- ISSN
0009-9236
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/clpt.2014.20