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Preexisting drug-resistance mutations reveal unique barriers to resistance for distinct antivirals.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Jun 2011
Robinson Margaret, Tian Yang, Delaney William E, Greenstein Andrew E
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Clinical trials of direct-acting antiviral agents in patients chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) have demonstrated that viral resistance is detected rapidly during monotherapy. In patients, HCV does not exist as a single, genetically homogenous virus but rather as a population of variants termed "quasispecies." Preexisting variants resistant to specific antiviral drugs, overlooked in traditional...
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