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YMDD motif in hepatitis B virus DNA polymerase influences on replication and lamivudine resistance: A study by in vitro full-length viral DNA transfection.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Mar 1999
Ono-Nita S K, Kato N, Shiratori Y, Masaki T, Lan K H, Carrilho F J, Omata M
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Recently, lamivudine used to treat patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection was revealed to have potent antiviral activity. However, HBV resistance to lamivudine has been reported and shown to have amino acid substitutions in the methionine residue of the conserved tyrosine (Y), methionine...
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