Evaluation of the pol/S Gene Overlapping Mutations in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients in Northern Cyprus

Abstract Mutations associated with the pol and the S gene can emerge as a consequence of the high replication capacity and proofreading deficiencies of hepatitis B virus during replication. The current study was constructed to evaluate primary, partial, compensatory and the escape mutations in chronic hepatitis B patients in Northern Cyprus. The samples of HBsAg positive treatment naïve 100 patients were involved in this study. HBV pol gene region was sequenced, amplified and HBV pol/S gene mutations were determined. The samples of thirty-two patients were excluded because of their low viral load (HBV < 1000 ıu/ml). Among the sequenced 68 samples, there was a partial mutation (1.5%) and 36.7% displayed a resistance profile to lamivudine, adevofir, and telbivudine. Immune response escape, vaccine escape, HBIg and diagnosis escape mutations were determined in 24%, 10%, 6%, and 4% samples of the patients, respectively. Additionally, there were six different combined mutations. These data underscored that there is no concern for primary mutations in Northern Cyprus, however, we have identified a compensatory mutation (rtV173M) that may have primary mutation characteristics by combining with other mutation patterns. Additionally, HBsAg escape mutants demonstrated that detection of the S gene together with the pol gene mutations might be beneficial and important to monitor the surveillance of S variants..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

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2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:68

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Polish journal of microbiology - 68(2019), 3 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 317-322

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Englisch

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ARIKAN, AYSE [VerfasserIn]
SAYAN, MURAT [VerfasserIn]
SANLIDAG, TAMER [VerfasserIn]
SUER, KAYA [VerfasserIn]
AKCALI, SINEM [VerfasserIn]
GUVENIR, MERYEM [VerfasserIn]

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© 2019 Anton Pyskun et al., published by Sciendo

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10.33073/pjm-2019-034

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OLC2142976190