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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Christos J. Petropoulos, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Jeannette Whitcomb, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
ViroLogic, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/70 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/70 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to antiviral drug susceptibility and resistance tests to be used in identifying effective drug regimens for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and further relates to the means and methods of monitoring the clinical progression of HIV infection and its response to antiretroviral therapy, particularly nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor therapy using phenotypic susceptibility assays or genotypic assays.