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Successful therapy of hepatitis B with tenofovir in HIV-infected patients failing previous adefovir and lamivudine treatment.
AIDS (London, England) - 19 Nov 2004
Schildgen Oliver, Schewe Carl Knud, Vogel Martin, Däumer Martin, Kaiser Rolf, Weitner Lutwin, Matz Bertfried, Rockstroh Jürgen Kurt
Abstract excerpt
Three HIV-infected patients with chronic hepatitis B (genotype A) were switched to adefovir therapy after unsuccessful lamivudine treatment. Surprisingly, adefovir therapy failed, although none of the virus isolates displayed mutations known to be associated with adefovir resistance (A181V, N236T). In two isolates we identified hepatitis B virus DNA polymerase mutation L217R, in one case we found multiple...
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