Result: Interestingly, two samples, one collected in 2013 and the other in 2016, presented concurrently the mutations
E138A,
G140S, and
Q148H, which confer high-level resistance to all
INSTIs, including BIC (Table 2).
Result: Previous studies have demonstrated that HIV-1 patient samples harboring these mutations (
E138EA,
G140S, and
Q148HKR) show high-level resistance to
INSTIs, and these combinations were identified in 1.52% of our sequences.