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3–18 | <strong>Clinical</strong> <strong>Manual</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Management</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>HIV</strong>-<strong>Infected</strong> Adult/2006<br />

Table 1. Resistance Testing Re<strong>com</strong>mendations<br />

<strong>Clinical</strong> Setting/Re<strong>com</strong>mendation Rationale<br />

Re<strong>com</strong>mended<br />

Acute or primary <strong>HIV</strong> infection, if<br />

treatment is to be started<br />

Chronic <strong>HIV</strong> infection be<strong>for</strong>e starting<br />

ART<br />

• Determine whe<strong>the</strong>r drug-resistant virus was transmitted, to help design an initial regimen or to<br />

change a regimen accordingly.<br />

• Consider resistance testing in all, even if treatment is deferred.<br />

• Determine whe<strong>the</strong>r drug-resistant virus was transmitted to help design an initial regimen.<br />

• Transmitted drug-resistant virus is more likely to be detected earlier in <strong>the</strong> course <strong>of</strong> <strong>HIV</strong> infection;<br />

consider resistance testing early.<br />

Virologic failure during ART • Determine <strong>the</strong> role <strong>of</strong> resistance in drug failure and maximize <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong> active drugs in <strong>the</strong> new<br />

regimen, if indicated.<br />

Suboptimal suppression <strong>of</strong> viral load<br />

after starting ART<br />

• Determine <strong>the</strong> role <strong>of</strong> resistance and maximize <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong> active drugs in <strong>the</strong> new regimen, if<br />

indicated.<br />

Not Usually Re<strong>com</strong>mended<br />

After discontinuation <strong>of</strong> drugs • Drug resistance mutations may decrease in number and be<strong>com</strong>e undetectable on assays.<br />

Plasma viral load

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