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Course of virologic breakthroughs under long-term lamivudine in HBeAg-negative precore mutant HBV liver disease.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Jul 2002
Papatheodoridis George V, Dimou Evangelini, Laras Andreas, Papadimitropoulos Vassilios, Hadziyannis Stephanos J
Abstract excerpt
We studied the course of virologic breakthroughs detected by a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay in 32 of 78 patients with hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-negative precore mutant hepatitis B virus (HBV) chronic liver disease under long-term lamivudine monotherapy. Serum HBV DNA levels were measured every 3 months and on every biochemical breakthrough. YMDD mutants were detected in 30 of the 32...
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