Clade homogeneity and Pol gene polymorphisms in chronically HIV-1 infected antiretroviral treatment naive patients after the roll out of ART in Ethiopia

Table 5 Characteristics of patients with and without transmitted drug resistance

	Patients with resistance mutations	Patients without resistance mutations	P value
Age (mean ± SEM)	32.7 ± 1.7	32.9 ± 0.78	0.072
Sex
	Male (number)	8	65
	Female (number)	12	75
CD4⁺ T cells^a	141 ± 21.5	178 ± 9.3	0.152
Plasma viral load^b	4.98 ± 0.13	4.73 ± 0.06	0.170

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