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Prevalence of hepatitis B antiviral drug resistance variants in North American patients with chronic hepatitis B not receiving antiviral treatment.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Nov 2017
Lok A S, Ganova-Raeva L, Cloonan Y, Punkova L, Lin H-H S, Lee W M, Ghany M G
Abstract excerpt
Antiviral drug resistance hepatitis B virus (HBV) variants (HBV-DR) occur spontaneously in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients and after exposure to nucleos(t)ide analogues (NUCs). We determined the prevalence of HBV-DR variants among participants of the Hepatitis B Research Network (HBRN) Cohort Study conducted at 21 sites in the United States (US) and Canada. Samples obtained from 1342 CHB participants aged...
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