Lamivudine resistance of hepatitis B virus masked by coemergence of mutations in probe region of the COBAS AMPLICOR assay

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2587-2589

  Lindh, Magnus ^a   Hannoun, Charles ^a   Malmström, Sebastian ^a   Lindberg, Johan ^a   Norkrans, Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADEFOVIR; DNA POLYMERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LAMIVUDINE; PEGINTERFERON; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG RESISTANCE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIREMIA; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PROBES; DNA, VIRAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LAMIVUDINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL LOAD;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 33746216116     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00265-06     Document Type: Article

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