High-Levels of Acquired Drug Resistance in Adult Patients Failing First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in a Rural HIV Treatment Programme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

• Justen Manasa ,

  * E-mail: jmanasa@gmail.com

  Affiliation Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, South Africa

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• Richard J. Lessells,

  Affiliations Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, South Africa, Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Andrew Skingsley,

  Affiliation Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, South Africa

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• Kevindra K. Naidu,

  Affiliation Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, South Africa

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• Marie-Louise Newell,

  Affiliations Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, South Africa, MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

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• Nuala McGrath ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nuala McGrath, Tulio de Oliveira

  Affiliations Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, South Africa, Academic Unit of Primary Care and Population Sciences, and Division of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Tulio de Oliveira, for the Southern African Treatment and Resistance Network (SATuRN)

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nuala McGrath, Tulio de Oliveira

  Affiliations Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, South Africa, Research Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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