Emergence of hepatitis B virus quasispecies with lower susceptibility to nucleos(t)ide analogues during lamivudine treatment
Author(s) -
F. Moriconi,
P. Colombatto,
B. Coco,
P. Ciccorossi,
Filippo Oliveri,
Diego Flichman,
A.M. Maina,
Rodolfo Sacco,
Ferruccio Bonino,
Maurizia Rossana Brunetto
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkm187
Subject(s) - lamivudine , adefovir , virology , viral quasispecies , reverse transcriptase , hepatitis b virus , virus , hepatitis b , medicine , chronic hepatitis , reverse transcriptase inhibitor , biology , viral disease , hepatitis c virus , polymerase chain reaction , gene , genetics , sida
We studied the impact of hepatitis B virus (HBV) polymerase/reverse transcriptase (Pol/Rt) heterogeneity on adefovir rescue therapy in 34 consecutive chronic hepatitis B patients with viral breakthrough during lamivudine monotherapy.
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