Abstract: Objective To explore the new characteristics of drug resistant mutations against nucleos(t)ide analogues in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Methods Total of 590 CHB patients conducted antiviral therapy with nucleos(t)ide analogues were included for analysis. The results of the PCR-product
direct sequencing for HBV drug resistance mutations were positive in all patients and 200 μl serum was taken to extract the DNA template and the RT genes of HBV were amplified by PCR technique. Electrophoresis for the purified products was conducted in 1.5% agarose gel and the DNA sequence was measured for HBV drug resistant mutations by the Sequence Scanner. Results It was demonstrated that the higher occured mutation sites in all detected 1354 mutations were L180M, M204I, M204V, A181T, L80I, N236T and A181V, with the frequency of 45.3%, 42.7%, 29.7%, 26.6%, 24.4%, 17.3% and 16.9%. The most common resistant pattern was multiple mutation sites, with the rate of 70.8% and only 29.2% of 590 patients had just one mutation site. The frequency rate concerning LAM, FTC, ETV, ADV, LdT and TDF were 32.7% (909), 26.3% (729), 18.9% (524), 12.9% (359), 9.1% (252) and 0.1% (4), respectively. There were 283 patients involved for two-drug resistant, accounting for 47.9%. The common forms of two-drug resistant were LAM plus LdT and LAM plus ETV, with the rates of 37.6% and 7.1%. There were 33 cases involved for three and more NAs drug resistant, taking the rate of 5.6%, and the most popular drug resistant pattern was the combination of LAM、LdTand ADV. There were 50 cases defined for ETV resistance, taking the rate of 8.5%. Conclusions The drug resistant mutations against NAs are more variable now after decades of administration clinical. The situations of multiple mutation sites and multiple drugs resistance are increasing. Investigation and comprehensive analysis for NAs resistant mutations, especially for multiple drug resistant is valuable for prevention and management of NAs resistance among during antiviral treatment.
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