GENERAL MEDICINE: Entecavir for Hepatitis B Linked to HIV Resistance

Audio Journal of Medicine, September 18th, 2007 Reporting from: 47th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Chicago, 2007 Entecavir for Hepatitis B Linked to HIV Resistance MOIRA MCMAHON, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore REFERENCE: Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 17 – 20 September 2007, Chicago The hepatitis B drug entecavir appears to select for a drug resistant HIV mutation – and this has implications for patients infected with both viruses. Derek Thorne got the details from Moira McMahon from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.