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Major causes of antiviral drug resistance and implications for treatment of hepatitis B virus monoinfection and coinfection with HIV.
Antiviral therapy - 1 Jan 2007
Locarnini Stephen, Warner Nadia
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The two key events in the life-cycle of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) involve (1) the generation from viral genomic DNA of the covalently closed circular DNA transcriptional template, and (2) the reverse transcription of the viral pregenomic RNA to form the HBV DNA genome. Diversity in the HBV genome is ensured by the low fidelity of the viral reverse transcriptase (rt). Particular selection pressures such as...
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