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High replicative full-length lamivudine-resistant hepatitis B virus isolated during acute exacerbations.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Oct 2005
Zhang Ji-Ming, Yao Xin, Wang Yong-Xiang, Liu Fang, Ma Zhang-Mei, Weng Xing-Hua, Wen Yu-Mei
Abstract excerpt
During chronic HBV infections, exacerbations of disease usually occur without clearly understood mechanisms. In this study, full-length HBV genomes were analyzed from four chronic hepatitis B patients who developed resistance to lamivudine [-2'-deoxy-3'-thiacytidine, LMV] accompanied by acute exacerbation of disease. Paired full-length HBV isolates were cloned from the sera of patients prior to LMV treatment and...
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