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Large-scale survey of naturally occurring HBV polymerase mutations associated with anti-HBV drug resistance in untreated patients with chronic hepatitis B.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jul 2011
Mirandola S, Campagnolo D, Bortoletto G, Franceschini L, Marcolongo M, Alberti A
Abstract excerpt
Drug resistance is a major limitation for the long-term efficacy of antiviral therapy with nucleos(t)ide analogues (NAs) in chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Antiviral resistance mutations may pre-exist in the overall viral population of untreated patients. We aimed to assess the prevalence of such hepatitis B virus (HBV) variants in a large cohort of NAs-naïve patients with CHB and to explore possible association with...
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