Baseline HIV Genotyping and Antiretroviral Therapy Resistance Mutations in Saudi Arabian Population, a Multicentre, Cross-Sectional Study
Roa Al-Osaimi, Moayad Al-Qurashi, Lama Al-Zamil, Batool Ali, Reem Al-Mutairy, Ali Al-Saeed, Meqbel Al-Shelawi, Abdullah Al-Khalaf, Abdullah Al-Subaie, Layla Faqih · 2026
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Roa Al-Osaimi leads a ten-author study of drug resistance in newly diagnosed HIV patients in Saudi Arabia in a 2026 paper. Resistance passed on at infection can blunt first-line therapy, so baseline gene testing guides drug choice. Three hospitals contributed six hundred fourteen untreated patients diagnosed in 2023 and 2024, whose viral genes for three drug targets were sequenced and checked against a standard database.
The patients were mostly men aged twenty-five to forty-four, and most arrived with high virus levels. The virus itself was strikingly diverse, led by subtype C and two recombinant and G forms. Raw mutation counts looked alarming, above eighty percent in some genes, yet nearly all were harmless subtype quirks. Mutations that truly matter sat near three percent overall, and none touched the newest drug class. Al-Osaimi's team backs continued baseline testing to catch any rise early.
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| CREATOR | Roa Al-Osaimi, Moayad Al-Qurashi, Lama Al-Zamil, Batool Ali, Reem Al-Mutairy, Ali Al-Saeed, Meqbel Al-Shelawi, Abdullah Al-Khalaf, Abdullah Al-Subaie, Layla Faqih |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |