Journal
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 65, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01216-21
Keywords
NNRTI; antiretroviral resistance; clinical isolates; doravirine
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- Merck Sharp Dohme Corp.
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The study aimed to investigate the impact of resistance-associated mutations on the susceptibility of clinical isolates to the NNRTI doravirine, finding that most patients showed high susceptibility to doravirine.
Clinical management of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) infection may be negatively impacted by either acquired or transmitted drug resistance. Here, we aim to extend our understanding of the impact of resistance-associated mutations (RAMs) on the susceptibility of clinical isolates to the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) doravirine. Clinical isolates from people living with HIV-1 undergoing routine testing for susceptibility to doravirine and other approved NNRTIs (etravirine, rilpivirine, efavirenz, and nevirapine) were collected from August 2018 to August 2019. Susceptibility in the presence/absence of NNRTI and nucleos(t)ide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) mutations was determined using cutoffs for relative fold change in inhibition (ratio of the 50% inhibitory concentration [IC50] of patient virus compared with the IC50 of a wild-type reference strain). Biological cutoffs of 3- to 15-fold change were investigated for doravirine, with preestablished cutoffs used for the other NNRTIs. Of 4,070 clinical isolates, 42.9% had >= 1 NNRTI RAM. More isolates were susceptible to doravirine (92.5-96.7%) than to etravirine (91.5%), rilpivirine (89.5%), efavirenz (81.5%), or nevirapine (77.5%). Based on a 3-fold cutoff, doravirine susceptibility was retained in 44.7-65.8% of isolates resistant to another NNRTI and 28.5% of isolates resistant to all other tested NNRTIs. The presence of NRTI RAMs, including thymidine analog mutations, was associated with doravirine hypersusceptibility in some isolates, particularly in the absence of NNRTI RAMs. These results support the favorable resistance profile of doravirine and are of particular importance given the challenge posed by both acquired and transmitted resistance.
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