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[Retherapy with lamivudine in hbeag-negative chronic hepatitis B patients unresponsive to interferon/peginterferon treatment].
Voprosy virusologii - 1 Jan 2000
Fedorchenko S V, Martynovich T L, Ianchenko V I, Klimenko Zh B, Liashok O V
Abstract excerpt
The paper gives data on retherapy with lamivudine in seven HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B patients previously unresponsive to interferon-alpha and peginterferon-alpha2b therapy (6 unresponsive patients and 1 with recurrence). Prior to lamivudine therapy, hepatic biopsy and HBV genotyping were carried out and the baseline level of viremia and the presence of YMDD mutations were determined in all the patients....
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