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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype and YMDD motif mutation profile among patients infected with HBV and untreated with lamivudine.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Jan 2008
Amini-Bavil-Olyaee Samad, Hosseini Sayed Younes, Sabahi Farzaneh, Alavian Seyed-Moayed
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: A few reports exist on hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype distribution in Iran; however the sample sizes of these studies are insufficient. The first objective of this study was to determine the HBV genotype distribution with a large sample size (147 specimens). The second objective was to determine the incidence of the lamivudine-resistant YMDD mutant profile among HBV-infected patients not treated...
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