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Association between lamivudine sensitivity and the number of substitutions in the reverse transcriptase region of the hepatitis B virus polymerase.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Sept 2007
Fukai K, Zhang K Y, Imazeki F, Kurihara T, Mikata R, Yokosuka O
Abstract excerpt
This study aimed to identify the viral factors responsible for poor sensitivity to lamivudine (LAM). We analyzed 49 LAM-treated chronic hepatitis B patients infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype C. Serum HBV DNA reached a level below the detection limit of the sensitive PCR assay in 31 (...
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