A Ganciclovir-Resistant Clinical Isolate of Human Cytomegalovirus Exhibiting Cross-Resistance to Other DNA Polymerase Inhibitors
- 1 October 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 166 (4) , 904-907
- https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/166.4.904
Abstract
Clinical isolates of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) were screened for susceptibility to ganciclovir by plaque-reduction assay and in situ ELISA. A pretreatment isolate of HCMV obtained from the bronchial brushing of a heart transplant recipient contained both ganciclovir-susceptible and -resistant virus. Ganciclovir-susceptible (P8) and -resistant (D16) strains were further isolated by plaque purification. Both strains phosphorylated ganciclovir at levels similar to the ganciclovir-susceptible strain AD169. D16 was also resistant to phosphonoformic acid and to (S)-1-(3-hydroxy-2-phosphonylmethoxypropyl)adenine and cytosine. These data suggest that the resistance ofD16 to these drugs results from a mutation in the viral DNA polymerase gene.Keywords
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