First case of transmission of a multidrug-resistant strain of HIV in France

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In 2004, for the first time, a case of transmission of the multidrug-resistant human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was discovered in New York.

The Toulouse University Hospital has just detected a first case of transmission of a strain of HIV resistant to all conventional antiretrovirals.

A discovery made last fall and which has just been published in the British medical journal

, coupled with a report to Public Health France.

The two patients live in Occitania infected live in Occitania, but do not know each other.

The "source" patient is 54 years old and diagnosed positive in 1995, and the other is a 23 year old young man, first infected.

According to Pierre Delobel, the head of the infectious diseases department of the CHU, author of the article, "there is therefore at least an intermediate link" between the two men.

Hence the establishment of an alert launched to French and Catalan laboratories, infected patients having had numerous contacts in this Spanish region.

For the time being, this surveillance has not made it possible to identify the missing link or links in the transmission of this source.

"Single event, monitored"

“There is no reason to believe this is the start of a new transmission.

This is a unique event, which we are going to monitor very carefully, but there is no reason to believe that it will spread, ”insists Professor Dabis, director of the National Agency for research on AIDS and viral hepatitis (ANRS).

As for the two patients, the "source patient" entered a clinical trial on drugs in development, while the youngest "who defends himself well against the virus" was placed under surveillance, says Professor Delobel.

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