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Factors influencing inadequate or suboptimal response to adefovir with or without genotypic resistance.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jul 2012
Zhou Xia, Kuang XueMei, Fan Ke, Zhang ChangJiang, Deng GuoHong, Wang HuiFen, Wang YuMing
Abstract excerpt
The aim of the study was to explore the factors in inadequate-responders to treatment with adefovir (ADV) with or without genotypic resistance. The reverse-transcriptase (RT) gene of hepatitis B virus (HBV) was sequenced in 161 patients with inadequate-response to ADV and analyzed for HBV genotypes using a phylogenetic approach. Seventy-six patients (47.2%) were found to carry the rtA181V/T/S or rtN236T residue...
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