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Genomic diversity of drug-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Lisb...

Multidrug- (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) present a challenge to disease control and elimination goals. Lisbon, Portugal, has a high TB incidence rate and, unusual and successful XDR-TB strains that are found in circulation for almost two decades. In the present study, 56 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates, mostly recovered in Lisbon, were genotyped by 24-loci Mycobacterial Inters...

Resistance to antibody neutralization in HIV-2 infection occurs in late stage d...

Objectives: To characterize the nature and dynamics of the neutralizing antibody (NAb) response and escape in chronically HIV-2 infected patients. ; Methods: Twenty-eight chronically infected adults were studied over a period of 1-4 years. The neutralizing activity of plasma IgG antibodies against autologous and heterologous primary isolates was analyzed using a standard assay in TZM-bl cells. Coreceptor usage...

Baseline susceptibility of primary HIV-2 to entry inhibitors

Background: The baseline susceptibility of primary HIV-2 to maraviroc (MVC) and other entry inhibitors is currently unknown. ; Methods: The susceptibility of 19 HIV-2 isolates obtained from asymptomatic and AIDS patients and seven HIV-1 clinical isolates to the fusion inhibitors enfuvirtide (ENF) and T-1249, and to the coreceptor antagonists AMD3100, TAK-779 and MVC, was measured using a TZM-bl cellbased assay...

Atypical case of Mediterranean spotted fever