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Profile of HBV polymerase gene mutations during entecavir treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis B.
Clinics and research in hepatology and gastroenterology - 1 Nov 2016
Sun Mei, Tan Guolei, Song Jinyun, Wang Jianfang, Wu Xuping
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: We investigated the efficacy of entecavir (ETV) monotherapy in 54 naïve patients and 27 lamivudine (LMV) and/or adefovir (ADV) experienced patients. METHODS: Eighty-one chronic hepatitis B patients with a viral load above 4 log 10 copies/ml and high levels of serum alanine aminotransferase were treated with ETV 0.5mg daily. The viruses of patients were sequenced before ETV therapy and after every...
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