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Selection of the highly replicative and partially multidrug resistant rtS78T HBV polymerase mutation during TDF-ETV combination therapy.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Aug 2017
Shirvani-Dastgerdi Elham, Winer Benjamin Y, Celià-Terrassa Toni, Kang Yibin, Tabernero David, Yagmur Eray, Rodríguez-Frías Francisco, Gregori Josep, Luedde Tom, Trautwein Christian, Ploss Alexander, Tacke Frank
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Patients chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and receiving long-term treatment with nucleoside or nucleotide analogues are at risk of selecting HBV strains with complex mutational patterns. We herein report two cases of HBV-infected patients with insufficient viral suppression, despite dual antiviral therapy with entecavir (ETV) and tenofovir (TDF). One patient died from...
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