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Antiviral therapies: focus on hepatitis B reverse transcriptase.
The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology - 1 Jul 2012
Michailidis Eleftherios, Kirby Karen A, Hachiya Atsuko, Yoo Wangdon, Hong Sun Pyo, Kim Soo-Ok, Folk William R, Sarafianos Stefan G
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the etiologic agent of mankind's most serious liver disease. While the availability of a vaccine has reduced the number of new HBV infections, the vaccine does not benefit the approximately 350 million people already chronically infected by the virus. Most of the drugs approved by the FDA for the treatment of hepatitis B target the reverse transcriptase (RT or P gene product) and are...
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