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Impact of lamivudine-resistance mutations on entecavir treatment outcome in hepatitis B.
European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology - 1 Feb 2014
Koffi Joseph, Egounlety Romance, Pradat Pierre, Lebosse Fanny, Si-Ahmed Si-Nafa, Lussier Véronique, Chevallier Philippe, Bailly François, Zoulim Fabien
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Entecavir (ETV) is a potent inhibitor of viral replication in nucleos(t)ide analog (NA)-naive chronic hepatitis B patients with a very low rate of resistance (≤1.2%) over 5 years. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of ETV treatment in routine clinical practice and to investigate whether persistence of residual viral replication was the result of the emergence and selection...
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