for Health Care Providers

Biology of HIV

Stanford University HIV Drug Resistance Database
A resource for researchers featuring a curated database of nearly all published HIV resistance sequences, including a wide variety of clinician tools and charts.
HIV InSite Online Textbook
Chapters from the on-line textbook of HIV disease from the University of California San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital.
- Assays for Antiretroviral Resistance
  Covers genotypic and phenotypic resistance testing, drug resistance interpretation, and limitations of testing.
- HIV Antibody Assays
  Focuses on antibody detection, the most widely used and most effective way to identify HIV infection.
- HIV Viral Load Assays
  Describes the three most widely used commercial assays, with attention to aspects of each assay that may favor its use in different clinical situations.