Emergence of HBV resistance to lamivudine (3TC) in HIV/HBV co-infected patients in The Gambia, West Africa.

BACKGROUND: Lamivudine (3TC) is a potent inhibitor of both Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) replication and is part of first-line highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the Gambia. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of 3TC against HBV is limited by the emergence...

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Những tác giả chính: Stewart, B, Jobarteh, M, Sarge-Njie, R, Alabi, A, de Silva, T, Peterson, K, Peterson, I, Whittle, H, Rowland-Jones, S, Jaye, A, Cotten, M, Mendy, M
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: BioMed Central 2011
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