Brief Report: HIV-1 Resistance Analysis of Participants With HIV-1 and Hepatitis B Initiating Therapy With Bictegravir/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide or Dolutegravir Plus Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate: A Subanalysis of ALLIANCE Data
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Brief Report: HIV-1 Resistance Analysis of Participants With HIV-1 and Hepatitis B Initiating Therapy With Bictegravir/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide or Dolutegravir Plus Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate: A Subanalysis of ALLIANCE Data
Abstract
Background: In the phase 3 ALLIANCE study, both bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (B/F/TAF) and dolutegravir plus emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (DTG + F/TDF) achieved high rates of HIV-1 RNA suppression through week 96 in adults with HIV-1 and hepatitis B virus initiating treatment (NCT03547908). In this study, we quantify preexisting HIV-1 resistance, evaluate its effect on HIV-1 virologic suppression, and describe postbaseline HIV-1 resistance through week 96.
Methods: Preexisting HIV-1 resistance was assessed by historical and/or screening genotyping. HIV-1 RNA suppression to <50 copies (c)/mL at week 96 was assessed by the preexisting resistance category. Postbaseline resistance was assessed in participants with HIV-1 RNA ≥200 c/mL through week 96.
Results: Primary nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor, nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, and protease inhibitor resistance substitutions were present at baseline in 4 (1.7%), 19 (7.9%), and 5 (2.1%) of 241 participants, respectively. Virologic suppression rates were high, irrespective of preexisting primary resistance substitutions, including M184I. Six participants (3 per group) had confirmed HIV-1 RNA ≥200 c/mL and did not resuppress to <50 c/mL while on study drugs; none of the 5 with postbaseline resistance data had treatment-emergent primary resistance substitutions. One participant on DTG + F/TDF with multiple virologic failures and documented nonadherence by pill count had treatment-emergent K70E and M184V/I, and subsequently resuppressed.
Conclusion: In people with HIV-1 and hepatitis B virus treated with first-line B/F/TAF or DTG + F/TDF, preexisting HIV-1 resistance was uncommon and did not affect virologic suppression. No treatment-emergent HIV-1 resistance occurred with B/F/TAF, further supporting the high barrier to resistance of this regimen.
Keywords: HBV; HIV-1; M184V/I; bictegravir; dolutegravir; resistance.
Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
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