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Selection of a multiple drug-resistant hepatitis B virus strain in a liver-transplanted patient.
Gastroenterology - 1 Oct 2006
Villet Stéphanie, Pichoud Christian, Villeneuve Jean-Pierre, Trépo Christian, Zoulim Fabien
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Sequential anti-hepatitis B virus (HBV) therapy may lead to the selection of complex mutants. We analyzed the genetic and phenotypic evolution of the viral quasispecies of a patient who received successively lamivudine, add-on adefovir+lamivudine, followed by lamivudine+adefovir+hepatitis B immunoglobulins (HBIg) after orthotopic liver transplantation. METHODS: For genotypic analysis, a 1310-bp...
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