HIV Pathogenesis, Fitness and Resistance Session Posters

High rates of HIV-1 recombination in T cells
W-S Hu

HIV-1 populations are large, highly diverse, and characterized by frequent recombination in drug-naive and drug-resistant individuals
F Maldarelli

Complex patterns of resistance mutations distributed on individual HIV-1 genomes comprising predominant plasma populations circulating in treated individuals
DD Huang

Evidence of differential selection of HIV-1 variants carrying drug-resistant mutations in seroconverters
C Balotta

Evolution of resistance mutations acquired at time of primary infection: persistence in circulating and archived HIV strains
ML Chaix

Transmitted NNRTI drug resistance is associated with higher steady-state viral load measures in untreated subjects with primary HIV infection
SJ Little

Distinct patterns of selection and fading of K103N and Y181C are seen in women with subtype A vs D HIV-1 after single dose nevirapine:
HIVNET 012
SH Eshleman

Mechanisms of persistence of NNRTI-resistant variants after discontinuation of NNRTI-containing regimens
S Palmer

Wild-type fitness of subtype C HIV-1 isolates containing multiple drug-resistant mutations in reverse transcriptase is due to compensation at the viral entry step
EJ Arts

A novel method based on recombinant viruses expressing green (EGFP) or red (DsRED) fluorescent proteins to study replicative fitness evolution of nelfinavir-resistant HIV-1 harbouring D30N and L90M mutations in the protease gene
J Weber

Relationship between low replication capacity and protease inhibitor hypersusceptibility in >3000 clinical samples lacking protease inhibitor resistance mutations
M Bates

Replication capacity explains the persistence of drug-resistant protease mutants in vivo after transmission or partial treatment interruption
NM van Maarseveen

Impact of nelfinavir resistance mutations on in vitro phenotype, fitness and replication capacity of HIV-1 with subtype B and C proteases
MA Soares

Replicative fitness evolution of a nelfinavir-resistant HIV-1 strain in the presence of different protease inhibitors
ME Quiñones-Mateu

Effect of RT resistance mutations on viral replication in hydroxyurea-pretreated cells
AJ Hance

Fitness of T215Y versus T215F mutants in HIV-1 RT: comparison of specific thymidine analogue resistance mutation (TAM) patterns
ZX Hu

The Q207D reverse transcriptase mutation decreases zidovudine susceptibility and increases relative fitness of zidovudine-resistant human immunodeficiency virus type 1
J Lu

Replicative fitness of HIV-1 strains with reduced susceptibility to protease-, reverse transcriptase- and entry (enfuvirtide)-inhibitors
ME Quiñones-Mateu

Reduced HIV replication capacity is associated with improved CD4 reconstitution following suppressive HAART
C Hicks

Very low levels of plasma HIV-1 viraemia in subjects with sustained suppression of viraemia <50 copies/ml can influence the recovery of CD4 cell counts after initiating HAART promoting the occurrence of transient viraemic episodes
V Calvez

CD8 T cell recognition of HIV-1 RT mutations induced by therapy with RT inhibitors in HIV-infected patients with persistent low viral load
A Samri

CD8+ T cell activation levels may be predicted by pol replication capacity of drug-resistant and wild-type HIV-1
JD Barbour

Selection pressure by neutralizing antibodies results in higher adaptive mutation rates in gp120
HF Günthard

Evolution of NRTI resistance patterns in heavily pre-treated HIV-1-infected patients undergoing treatment interruption
R Kaiser

Targeting reservoirs of human immunodeficiency virus infection: inducing latent viral expression without host cell activation
DM Margolis

Expression of APOBEC3G varies across individuals, in different HIV host cells, and with immunological activation
MP De Pasquale

Isolated lopinavir resistance after virological rebound of a lopinavir/ritonavir-based regimen
SG Deeks

Surveillance of resistance in KZN South Africa, including mother-infant pairs 6 weeks after single-dose NVP
M Gordon

A novel 5 amino acid insertion in the ß3-ß4 loop of HIV-1 RT conferring only low-level multidrug resistance
MCDG Huigen

Phylogeny and resistance profile of HIV-1 POL sequences obtained from rectal biopsies and blood
AB Petersen

Evolution of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 variants resistant to protease inhibitors after a protease inhibitor-sparing regimen
N Gianotti

Impact of the M184V/I on protease inhibitor susceptibilities in protease inhibitor-naive patients
NS Shulman