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Nature 407, 120 (14 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35025260

Drug-resistant HIV shows a worrying increase in the UK

Natasha Loder

The United Kingdom has seen a large increase in new cases of multidrug-resistant HIV over the past five years, according to a researcher at the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) who is calling for wider testing for resistance. Multidrug-resistant HIV is resistant to one or more members of all three classes of anti-HIV drug.