Thai doctors develop new test kit for HIV drug resistance testing

BANGKOK, March 2 – Thai doctors and medical researchers have developed a test kit to measure HIV drug resistance assaying with high sensitivity, an invention which will help reduce risks of allergic reactions and lower medical treatment costs of HIV patients.

Assoc Prof Dr Wasun Chantratita, chief of virology at Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, together with Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences (TCELS) have developed high sensitivity (Deep Sequencing) test kit for HIV drug resistance testing, a method more efficient in detecting the drug-resistant virus than the previous Sanger sequencing method.

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