HIV-1 Antiretroviral Drug Resistance in Recently Infected Patients in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire A 4-Year Survey, 2002–2006.

We performed HIV-1 drug resistance genotypic analysis of viral isolates from 100 antiretroviral (ARV)-naive, recently HIV-1-infected (between 2002 and 2006) individuals from Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire). The overall prevalence of HIV-1 variants with resistance mutations to reverse transcriptase, protease, or fusion inhibitors was 6. The majority of isolates were CRF02_AG. Compared with a previous study carried out by our group in 2001–2002 in a similar population in Abidjan, our findings confirm the circulation and transmission of HIV-1 carrying key ARV drug resistance mutation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]