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A new locus of foscarnet resistance in the cytomegalovirus UL54 DNA polymerase gene among uncharacterized mutations in recent clinical trials.
Antiviral research - 1 Feb 2026
Chou Sunwen, Minyard Alexis, Watanabe Justin
Abstract excerpt
In two recent Phase 3 clinical trials of maribavir that also involved existing standard therapies, many uncharacterized cytomegalovirus UL54 DNA polymerase genetic variants were encountered. Six UL54 mutations were selected for phenotyping, based on proximity to published resistance loci and quality of sequencing information. UL54 amino acid substitutions E949K and E949Q conferred foscarnet resistance with...
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