A sensitive direct sequencing assay based on nested PCR for the detection of HBV polymerase and surface glycoprotein mutations.
PMID: 19442845
2009
Journal of virological methods
Abstract: Direct sequencing was able to show pol mutations not revealed by DR v2, such as rtV214A, rtQ215H/S, and rtM250V.
Emergence of hepatitis B virus quasispecies with lower susceptibility to nucleos(t)ide analogues during lamivudine treatment.
PMID: 17567633
2007
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Abstract: All but three patients had baseline rtM204I/V substitutions associated with rtL180M in 23, rtL80I/V in 14, rtV173L in 4, rtT184S in 3, rtQ215S in 2 and rtA181S in 2 cases.
[Resistance to adefovir in patients with chronic hepatitis B].
PMID: 17237626
2006
The Korean journal of hepatology
Abstract: Other mutations in the HBV polymerase (rtP237H, rtN238T/D, rtV84M, rtS85A, rtV214A, rtQ215S) reduce sensitivity to adefovir, but the significance of these mutations is unclear.