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[Genotyping diagnosis of acyclovir resistant herpes simplex virus].
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Dec 2007
Frobert E, Thouvenot D, Lina B, Morfin F
Abstract excerpt
Herpes simplex virus resistant to acyclovir (ACV) is a major concern among immunocompromised patients. ACV resistance might be due to mutations located in one of the two genes involved in ACV mechanism of action, the thymidine kinase gene (TK, involved in 95% of the cases) and the DNA polymerase gene. TK gene mutations consist, in half of the cases, in nucleotide insertion or deletion, occurring most of the time...
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