Article
Experience with lamivudine against hepatitis B virus.
Intervirology - 1 Jan 1997
Jaeckel E, Manns M P
Abstract excerpt
After several nucleoside analogues have been tested against chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection with minimal success, lamivudine seems to be a highly effective new therapeutic option. This review focuses on nucleoside metabolism and on the molecular action of lamivudine as well as on result...
Topics
- 2-Aminopurine
- Acyclovir
- Antiviral Agents
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Drug Therapy, Combination
- Famciclovir
- Guanine
- Hepatitis B virus
- Hepatitis B, Chronic
- Humans
- Immunocompromised Host
- Interferons
- Lamivudine
- Liver Transplantation
- Mutation
- Nucleosides
- Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors