LabQ 2022 Clinical Laboratory: Molecular Diagnostics Exercise Faculty/Authors
KRISTEN COFFEY, MS, MBCM (ASCP) UNIVERISTY OF WEST FLORIDAPensacola, Florida
CMLE Credit: 2.0 Estimated Completion Time: 2 hour Format: Online Educational Activity and Post Exam
Instructions
To claim CMLE credit for the exercise, do the following:
Faculty DisclosuresThe faculty have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Technical Considerations
Release Date: 05/27/2022 Review Date:Expiration Date: 12/31/2024
explain 2 factors that can contribute to virologic failure in treatment-experienced HIV-positive patients;
differentiate virologic suppression from virologic failure using viral load thresholds;
describe different classes of antiretroviral medications used in HIV-positive patients to achieve virologic suppression;
predict how the mutations M184V, K103N/S, Y181 C/I/V, L76V, and E35D, will affect treatment outcomes in drugs targeted at reverse transcriptase and protease; and
identify the polymorphism that predicts an adverse drug reaction with abacavir.