Using hair to manage HIV and predict treatment success

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 06:28 in Health & Medicine

UCSF researchers have found that examining levels of antiretroviral drugs in hair samples taken from HIV patients on therapy strongly predicts treatment success. The findings, published in the 20 February issue of AIDS, note that the levels of antiretrovirals found in the hair of patients on treatment correlated strongly with levels of HIV virus circulating in patients' blood...

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