Scientists
The ITREMA project consists of a pragmatic randomized open-label clinical trial and several research studies and implementation projects linked to the clinical trial. Below is an overview of research output generated in the context of the ITREMA project.
Peer reviewed manuscripts
Effect of HIV-1 low-level viraemia during antiretroviral therapy on treatment outcomes in WHO-guided South African treatment programmes: a multicentre cohort study. Hermans LE, M. Moorhouse, S. Carmona, D.E. Grobbee, L.M. Hofstra, D.D. Richman, H.A. Tempelman, W.D.F. Venter, A.M.J. Wensing. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 Nov 17. pii: S1473-3099(17)30681-3.
Conference papers
Increased risk of cART failure after low-level viremia under WHO guidelines. Hermans L, Moorhouse M, Carmona S, Grobbee D, Hofstra M, Richman D, Tempelman H, Venter W, Wensing A. Oral presentation at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Seattle WA, USA, 2017.
PI drug level testing as a screening tool for drug resistance in 2nd line ART failure. Hermans LE, Steegen K, ter Heine R, Schuurman R, Tempelman HA, Moraba R, van Maarseveen E, Pillay T, Legg-Esilva D, Schapiro JM, Burger DM, Carmona S, Wensing AMJ. Accepted for mini-oral poster presentation at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Seattle, USA, 2019.
Impact of pretreatment drug resistance on treatment outcome in the ITREMA trial. Hermans LE, Hofstra LM, Schuurman R, ter Heine R, Tempelman HA, Venter WDF, Nijhuis M, Wensing AMJ. Accepted for poster presentation at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Seattle, USA, 2019.
Point-of-care drug level testing for adherence assessment of first and second line antiretroviral treatment in resource-limited settings Hermans LE, Nijhuis M, Kasper KC, O’Malley R, Oh SJ, Schuurman R, Tempelman HA, Venter WDF, Burger DM, Wensing AM, ter Heine R. . Poster presentation at the International AIDS conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2018.
High rates of viral resuppression on first-line ART after initial virological failure. Hermans L, Tempelman H, Carmona S, Nijhuis M, Grobbee D, Richman D, Moorhouse M, Venter W, Wensing A. Poster presentation at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Boston, USA, 2018.
Drug level screening to determine eligibility for drug resistance testing in South African patients with virological failure of second-line ART using Dried Blood Spots. LE Hermans, HA Tempelman, SR Moraba, R Schuurman, EM van Maarseveen and AMJ Wensing. Oral presentation at the International Workshop on HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Strategies – IWHDR, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2017.
Presentations
Understanding Virological Failure
Annemarie Wensing
Basic Principles of HIV Drug Resistance
Carole Wallis
Barriers to Adherence
John de Wit
How to Measure HIV Drug Resistance
Monique Nijhuis
About ITREMA
The ITREMA project is a collaboration between investigators from the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Utrecht University, Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Ndlovu Care Group (NCG, Limpopo, South Africa).
Get in contact with us
ITREMA
Heidelberglaan 100
3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands
Location
University Medical Centre Utrecht, Department of Medical Microbiology
+31 88 75 565 26
i.m.straver@umcutrecht.nl
