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Patterns of circulating hepatitis B virus serum nucleic acids during lamivudine therapy.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Jun 2004
Hacker Hans Jörg, Zhang Wei, Tokus Mehmet, Bock Thomas, Schröder Claus H
Abstract excerpt
Lamivudine treatment of individuals with chronic HBV infection leads to a rapid decline of hepatitis B virus (HBV) serum DNA. Because HBV replication quickly reaches pretreatment values following cessation of the drug, we addressed the question of whether changes during therapy in composition and amount of discernible circulating viral DNA and RNA might provide an explanation for this phenomenon. Nucleic acids...
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