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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) mutations associated with resistance to lamivudine in patients coinfected with HBV and human immunodeficiency virus.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 1999
Thibault V, Benhamou Y, Seguret C, Bochet M, Katlama C, Bricaire F, Opolon P, Poynard T, Agut H
Abstract excerpt
Mutations associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV) resistance to lamivudine have not been extensively addressed in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-HBV coinfection. We have studied the HBV polymerase sequences from nine coinfected patients who experienced HBV recurrence while under lamivudine treatment. In seven of these nine patients, Met(550), belonging to the highly conserved YMDD motif, was mutated to Val...
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