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Treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B with adefovir dipivoxil.
Seminars in liver disease - 1 Jan 2004
Tong Myron J, Tu Stanley S
Abstract excerpt
Adefovir dipivoxil, a nucleotide analog of adenosine monophosphate, is an antiviral agent that suppresses hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication through inhibition of DNA polymerase and by chain termination. To determine the effectiveness of adefovir, three populations of patients with chronic hepatitis B patients were studied: hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive patients, HBeAg-negative patients, and patients...
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