Result: In order to further verify the accuracy of the new method, we employed PCR to detect these two samples, and the results confirmed that the two samples did contain the HBV
M204V mutation, suggesting that the accuracy of the serum HBV DNA extraction combined with QDs-mediated fluorescent method was higher than that of the direct sequencing method.
Result: We also used the new method to detect the above serum samples and found that the abovementioned 11 samples were again detected to be
M204I mutations-positive samples, while two serum samples of the 17 mutation-negative samples were in fact detected to be
M204V mutations-positive samples, which were thus inconsistent with the results of direct sequencing.