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SUBMITTER: McMahon MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3069686 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McMahon Moira A MA Jilek Benjamin L BL Brennan Timothy P TP Shen Lin L Zhou Yan Y Wind-Rotolo Megan M Xing Sifei S Bhat Shridhar S Hale Braden B Hegarty Robert R Chong Curtis R CR Liu Jun O JO Siliciano Robert F RF Thio Chloe L CL
The New England journal of medicine 20070601 25
Entecavir, a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, is not believed to inhibit replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) at clinically relevant doses. We observed that entecavir led to a consistent 1-log(10) decrease in HIV-1 RNA in three persons with HIV-1 and HBV coinfection, and we obtained supportive in vitro evidence that entecavir is a potent partial inhibitor of HIV-1 replication. Detailed analysis ...[more]