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Nature 424, 361 (24 July 2003) | doi:10.1038/424361a

HIV drug resistance triggers strategic switch

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High rates of drug resistance are causing infectious-disease experts to recommend that doctors change the way they use medications against HIV.A study released on 16 July by Charles Boucher, a virologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, at a meeting in Paris of the International AIDS Society (IAS), found that 10% of Europeans newly infected with HIV carry a strain that is resistant to medication.