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Phenotypic and Genotypic Antiviral Resistance Testing of HSV-1 Causing Recurrent Cutaneous Lesions in a Patient with DOCK8 Deficiency

Casto, A. M.; Stout, S. C.; Selvarangan, R.; Freeman, A. F.; Newell, B. D.; Stahl, E. D.; Greninger, A. L.; Yin, D. E.

2019-10-17 genomics
10.1101/808303 bioRxiv
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Antiviral resistance frequently complicates treatment of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in immunocompromised patients. Here we review the case of an adolescent boy with dedicator of cytokinesis 8 (DOCK8) deficiency, who experienced recurrent infections with resistant HSV-1. We used both phenotypic and genotypic methodologies to characterize the resistance profile of HSV-1 in the patient and conclude that genotypic testing outperformed phenotypic testing. We also present the first analysis of intrahost HSV-1 evolution in an immunocompromised patient. While HSV-1 can remain static in an immunocompetent individual for decades, the virus from this patient rapidly acquired genetic changes throughout its genome.

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