Relationship between the Development of Precore and Core Promoter Mutations and Hepatitis B e Antigen Seroconversion in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B Virus
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- 1 November 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 186 (9) , 1335-1338
- https://doi.org/10.1086/344327
Abstract
Chinese patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (332 with and 44 without cirrhosis-related complications) were studied. Fifty percent of patients 6–1.55×106 copies/mL, irrespective of the presence or absence of precore mutations. There was no difference in the prevalence of precore mutations between patients with and without complications (P not significant). However the prevalence of core promoter mutations was higher among patients with complications than among those without complications (90.5% vs. 69.3%, respectively; P=.003). In conclusion, precore mutations occurred in a large proportion of Chinese patients with chronic hepatitis B virus before HBeAg seroconversion. The development of complications was not related to precore mutations but was probably due to the persistence of significant viremia after HBeAg seroconversionKeywords
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