Adherence Measured Using Electronic Dose Monitoring is Associated with Emergent Antiretroviral Resistance and Poor Outcomes in People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/AIDS and Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Bateman M, Wolf A, Chimukangara B, Brust JCM, Lessells R, Amico R, Boodhram R, Singh N, Orrell C, Friedland G, Naidoo K, Padayatchi N, O’Donnell MR. Adherence Measured Using Electronic Dose Monitoring is Associated with Emergent Antiretroviral Resistance and Poor Outcomes in People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/AIDS and Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2022, 75: 1489-1496. PMID: 35352097, PMCID: PMC9617578, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac232.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMultidrug-resistant tuberculosisHuman immunodeficiency virusMDR-TB treatmentART adherenceART resistanceHuman immunodeficiency virus/AIDSEmergent resistanceStandard of careResource-limited settingsTB regimensAntiretroviral resistanceHIV RNAProspective cohortMedication adherenceImmunodeficiency virusPoor outcomeShort followAdherence thresholdCopies/Treatment outcomesDose monitoringResistance mutationsResistance testingPublic hospitalsLinear association