Emergence of a novel mutation in the FLLA region of hepatitis B virus during lamivudine therapy.
PMID: 15980328
2005
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Abstract: The mutant had a rtL180C/M204I genotype and was detected after 2 years of therapy with lamivudine.
Abstract: Transient transfection studies in human hepatoma cells with HBV carrying the new mutant demonstrated that the rtL180C/M204I mutant was resistant to lamivudine up to 10 microM.