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Fiona Wightman1, Tomos Walters, Anna Ayres, Scott Bowden, Angeline Bartholomeusz, Daryl Lau, Stephen Locarnini, Sharon R Lewin.
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We report a rapid and accurate real-time PCR-based method to quantify wild-type and lamivudine-resistant hepatitis B virus by using a common forward primer paired with different reverse primers. Excellent concordance was demonstrated between sequencing and the discriminatory real-time assay; however, a mixture of quasispecies was more frequently detected by discriminatory real-time PCR.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15297535 PMCID: PMC497642 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3809-3812.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948