“…Unlike HIV-1, HIV-2 rarely develops resistance to NRTIs through the excision pathway [ 32 ] because the presence of a methionine at position 73 in HIV-2 RT, instead of lysine as found in HIV-1, prevents the development of resistance through the accumulation of TAMs [ 64 ]. In HIV-2, nine resistance mutations (K40R, A62V, K65R, K70R, Y115F, Q151M, M184I/V, S215Y) cause significant resistance to 3TC, ABC, AZT and TDF ( Table 1 ) [ 14 , 26 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 ].…”