The protease inhibitors suffer from other problems besides viral resistance.
Importantly, no evidence for an increase of viral resistance in association with therapy failure was present in the repeated interruptions arm (See Table 2).
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The treatment doesn't cause viruses to mutate either, which is a problem in other virus treatments and can lead to viral resistance.
Patients who start and stop on protease inhibitors can breed viral resistance, rendering the promise of new drugs worthless.
Wolbachia has been linked to viral resistance in Drosophila melanogaster and mosquito species.
If you get six hours of virus replication because you skip a dose, that is going to move onto viral resistance fairly quickly.
The goal is to find a way to improve production of industrial chemicals or medications, or to test viral resistance.
A main hope is that new classes of drugs will overcome such toxicities and also the increasingly common problem of viral resistance.
He and other scientists also caution that viral resistance to the latest drugs can occur quickly.