Abstract: Patients were hepatitis B
e antigen (
HBeAg)-positive or
HBeAg-negative, with levels of HBV DNA >=3 log10 IU/mL and lamivudine resistance mutations (HBV
polymerase or
reverse transcriptase amino acid substitutions
rtM204I/V +-
rtL180M by INNO-LiPA Multi-DR v3; Innogenetics, Inc, Alpharetta, GA).