Hepatitis B drug creates HIV resistance
In people infected with both the hepatitis B virus and the AIDS virus HIV, a widely used treatment for hepatitis also causes HIV to develop drug resistance, scientists report.
Chloe Thio of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and her colleagues studied HIV infection in three patients who were taking the drug entecavir to treat hepatitis B, a virus that attacks the liver. The scientists found that entecavir reduced the amount of HIV in all three patients’ bloodstreams.