Method: ETV resistance: Two or more amino acid substitutions are required across the HBV RT protein to confer resistance to ETV which could occur as a combination of M204I/V with one or more of the following substitutions L80I/V, I163V, I169T, V173L, L180M, A181S/T/V, T184X, A186T, S202C/G/I/R, M250I/V and/or C256S/G.
Characterization and Clinical Significance of Natural Variability in Hepatitis B Virus Reverse Transcriptase in Treatment-Naive Chinese Patients by Sanger Sequencing and Next-Generation Sequencing.
PMID: 31189581
2019
Journal of clinical microbiology
Discussion: In this study, using next-generation sequencing, mutations were found at rt202 (rtS202R/I/N/C/G), rt204 (rtM204L/R/I), rt236 (rtN236T/K/H), and rt250 (rtM250I/L) (Table 5).
HBV Drug Resistance Substitutions Existed before the Clinical Approval of Nucleos(t)ide Analogues: A Bioinformatic Analysis by GenBank Data Mining.
Abstract: Secondary substitutions (rtL80V and rtV173G/A/L) occurred more frequently than primary NUCr substitutions (rtI169L; rtA181G; T184A/S; rtS202T/R; rtM204L and rtM250K).