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Participants were divided into those who received antiviral therapy and those who did not. The study was conducted at a multicenter health care system in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-zoi241054-7\"><jats:title>Exposure<\/jats:title><jats:p>Treatment regimen, including none, nirmatrelvir, and remdesivir.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-zoi241054-8\"><jats:title>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title><jats:p>The primary outcome was emergent SARS-CoV-2 antiviral resistance, defined as the detection of antiviral resistance mutations, which were not present at baseline, were previously associated with decreased antiviral efficacy, and emerged during or after completion of a participant\u2019s treatment. Next-generation sequencing was used to detect low frequency mutations down to 1% of the total viral population.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-zoi241054-9\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Overall, 156 participants (114 female [73.1%]; median [IQR] age, 56 [38-69] years) were included. Compared with 63 untreated individuals, the 79 who received nirmatrelvir were older and more commonly immunosuppressed. After sequencing viral RNA from participants\u2019 anterior nasal swabs, nirmatrelvir resistance mutations were detected in 9 individuals who received nirmatrelvir (11.4%) compared with 2 of those who did not (3.2%) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.09). Among the individuals treated with nirmatrelvir, those who were immunosuppressed had the highest frequency of resistance emergence (5 of 22 [22.7%]), significantly greater than untreated individuals (2 of 63 [3.1%]) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.01). Similar rates of nirmatrelvir resistance were found in those who had virologic rebound (3 of 23 [13.0%]) vs those who did not (6 of 56 [10.7%]) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.86). Most of these mutations (10 of 11 [90.9%]) were detected at low frequencies (&amp;amp;lt;20% of viral population) and reverted to the wild type at subsequent time points. Emerging remdesivir resistance mutations were only detected in immunosuppressed individuals (2 of 14 [14.3%]) but were similarly low frequency and transient. Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data analysis showed no evidence of increased nirmatrelvir resistance in the United States after the authorization of nirmatrelvir.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-zoi241054-10\"><jats:title>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title><jats:p>In this cohort study of 156 participants, treatment-emergent nirmatrelvir resistance mutations were commonly detected, especially in individuals who were immunosuppressed. 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