Entecavir for Hepatitis B Linked to HIV Resistance

Entecavir for Hepatitis B Linked to HIV Resistance

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20 September 2007

Moira McMahon REFERENCE:47th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Chicago, 2007 MOIRA MCMAHON, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore The hepatitis B drug ente

Moira McMahon

Moira McMahon

REFERENCE:47th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Chicago, 2007MOIRA MCMAHON, Johns Hopkins University, BaltimoreThe hepatitis B drug entecavir appears to select for a drug resistant HIV mutation – and this has implications for patients infected with both viruses. Derek Thorne got the details fromMoira McMahonfrom Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. .