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ABSTRACT: Background
Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with emtricitabine plus tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (FTC/TDF) or TDF alone reduces the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition. Understanding the risk of antiretroviral resistance selected by PrEP during breakthrough infections is important because of the risk of treatment failure during subsequent antiretroviral use.Methods
Within the largest randomized trial of FTC/TDF versus TDF as PrEP, plasma samples were tested for HIV with resistance mutations associated with FTC (K65R and M184IV) and TDF (K65R and K70E), using 454 sequencing.Results
Of 121 HIV seroconverters, 25 received FTC/TDF, 38 received TDF, and 58 received placebo. Plasma drug levels in 26 individuals indicated PrEP use during or after HIV acquisition, of which 5 had virus with resistance mutations associated with their PrEP regimen. Among those with PrEP drug detected during infection, resistance was more frequent in the FTC/TDF arm (4 of 7 [57%]), compared with the TDF arm (1 of 19 [5.3%]; P = .01), owing to the FTC-associated mutation M184IV. Of these cases, 3 had unrecognized acute infection at PrEP randomization, and 2 were HIV negative at enrollment.Conclusions
These results suggest that resistance selected by PrEP is rare but can occur both with PrEP initiation during acute seronegative HIV infection and in PrEP breakthrough infections and that FTC is associated with a greater frequency of resistance mutations than TDF.
SUBMITTER: Lehman DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4402339 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lehman Dara A DA Baeten Jared M JM McCoy Connor O CO Weis Julie F JF Peterson Dylan D Mbara Gerald G Donnell Deborah D Thomas Katherine K KK Hendrix Craig W CW Marzinke Mark A MA Frenkel Lisa L Ndase Patrick P Mugo Nelly R NR Celum Connie C Overbaugh Julie J Matsen Frederick A FA
The Journal of infectious diseases 20150113 8
<h4>Background</h4>Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with emtricitabine plus tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (FTC/TDF) or TDF alone reduces the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition. Understanding the risk of antiretroviral resistance selected by PrEP during breakthrough infections is important because of the risk of treatment failure during subsequent antiretroviral use.<h4>Methods</h4>Within the largest randomized trial of FTC/TDF versus TDF as PrEP, plasma samples were tested for ...[more]