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The HBV drug entecavir - effects on HIV-1 replication and resistance.
The New England journal of medicine - 21 Jun 2007
McMahon Moira A, Jilek Benjamin L, Brennan Timothy P, Shen Lin, Zhou Yan, Wind-Rotolo Megan, Xing Sifei, Bhat Shridhar, Hale Braden, Hegarty Robert, Chong Curtis R, Liu Jun O, Siliciano Robert F, Thio Chloe L
Abstract excerpt
Entecavir, a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, is not believed to inhibit replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) at clinically relevant doses. We observed that entecavir led to a consistent 1-log(10) decrease in HIV-1 RNA in three persons with HIV-1 and HBV coinfection, and we obtained supportive in vitro evidence...
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