Will You Have a Reaction to Abacavir?

Abacavir (Ziagen) is one medication prescribed to treat HIV. In the vast majority of people, Abacavir is perfectly safe, but there is a small percentage of people who are at risk of having an allergic reaction to the drug. Until now, there was no way to identify those people at risk for a hypersensitivity reaction. Now there is. It's called the "HLA-B*5701" (HLA) test, a genetic test that looks at an individual's HLA type for the presence of the HLA-B*5701 allele.

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