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The Wall Street Journal reports that researchers have just presented evidence that drug-resistant versions of the AIDS virus are more prevalent in the U.S. than previously thought.
Unfortunately, drug companies are not developing new antibiotics to fight the drug-resistant bugs, so they may spread unchecked.
Epigenetic gene silencing of the MGMT confers enhanced sensitivity to alkylating agents in cancer [ 24 25 ] . Lack of methylation, on the other hand, associates with high-risk of death [ 25 26 ] . It has been suggested that the high-levels of MGMT proteins contribute to a drug-resistant phenotype [ 27 ] . More than 90% of newly diagnosed GCTs and 70-80% of patients who present metastatic disease are cured with cisplatin-based chemotherapy [ 28 ] . However, 20-30% of the patients with metastatic disease exhibit resistance to the cisplatin curative regimen leading to high mortality in this group.
Missed pills lower the potency of the treatment, opening the way to drug-resistant HIV mutants.
Case reports in this cohort of patients have demonstrated that drug-resistant variants that appeared during TIs may not persist in subsequent time points even after repeated use of the same antiretroviral regimen [19,34].