Introduction: However, the landscape of antiretrovirals is changing continuously and new mutations such as
E138A/G/K/Q/R (that confers resistance to the
NNRTI rilpivirine (RPV), approved in 2011) are therefore not covered by this list.
Result: The most common TDRMs found in baseline samples were the T215 revertants, followed by
E138A/G/K/Q/R,
K103NS,
V179DE and
M41L (S1 Table).
Discussion: Competition experiments have shown that
E138A/G are the substitutions with the highest fitness, followed by
E138R/K/Q, which is in line with the long mean persistence times found in our study.