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VIROLOGY JOURNAL
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-9-245
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Hepatitis C virus; HCV baseline resistance; Protease inhibitors; HIV/HCV co-infection; Genetic diversity
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- Ministero della Salute, Ricerca Corrente [80207]
Background: Protease inhibitors (PIs) to treat hepatitis C (HCV) virus infection have been approved and others are under development. Results: The aims of this study were to illustrate natural polymorphisms in the HCV protease and measure the frequency of PI resistance mutations in different HCV genotypes from PI-naive patients. Direct sequencing of HCV NS3/4A protease was performed in 156 HCV patients naive to PIs who were infected with genotype 1a (n = 31), 1b (n = 39), 2 (n = 30), 3 (n = 33) and 4 (n = 23). Amino acid (aa) substitutions associated with HCV PI resistance were found in 17/156 (10.8%) sequences. Mutations V36L, T54S, V55A/I, and Q80K/L were observed in 29% of patients with genotype 1a, and V55F, Q80L/N and M175L in 10% of patients with genotype 1b. The mutation V158M was found in 3% of patients with genotype 2, D168Q was present in 100% of patients with genotype 3 and D168E was observed in 13% of patients with genotype 4. In addition, multiple aa polymorphisms not associated with PI resistance were detected in patients with genotypes 1a, 1b and 4 Conclusions: Although major PI resistance mutations were not detected, other resistance mutations conferring low level resistance to PIs together with a number of natural polymorphisms were observed in proteases of PI naive HCV patients. A more extensive analysis is needed to better evaluate the impact of baseline resistance and compensatory mutations in the efficacy of HCV PI treatment.
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