Result: Of the remaining eighteen patients in the study, sixteen showed no HBV mutations, whereas one had lamivudine resistant HBV
M204V/I mutation and another showed adefovir dipivoxil resistant HBV
A181T/V mutation.
Result: Of the two patients with consistently elevated HBV DNA load (Figure 3), one patient had HBV
A181T/V mutations that are associated with adefovir dipivoxil resistance and another patient had HBV
M204V/I mutations of lamivudine resistance.
Result: The patient with the lamivudine resistant HBV
M204V/I mutations showed a similar Th1/Th2 cytokine response with the nonmutation patients; however, the patient with adefovir dipivoxil resistant HBV
A181T/V mutations presented with persistent lower levels of Th1/Th2 cytokines pro