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Molecular characterization of intrahepatic and extrahepatic hepatitis B virus (HBV) reservoirs in patients on suppressive antiviral therapy.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jun 2011
Coffin C S, Mulrooney-Cousins P M, Peters M G, van Marle G, Roberts J P, Michalak T I, Terrault N A
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) replicates via an error-prone reverse transcriptase generating potential drug-resistant quasispecies. The degree of HBV variability in liver vs peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in patients on long-term suppressive antivirals is unclear. We characterized HBV replication, drug resistance and molecular diversity in patients with plasma HBV DNA undetectable by clinical assays....
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