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Selection of multiresistant hepatitis B virus during sequential nucleoside-analogue therapy.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Feb 2000
Mutimer D, Pillay D, Cook P, Ratcliffe D, O'Donnell K, Dowling D, Shaw J, Elias E, Cane P A
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) drug resistance to lamivudine is always accompanied by mutations in the viral polymerase gene at position 550, termed group 1 (M550V with L526M) or group 2 (M550I) mutations. The latter mutation has not been associated with famciclovir resistance. Thus, the addition of famciclovir to lamivudine therapy in persons with group 2 lamivudine resistance may lead to virus suppression. The effect...
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