Virology and clinical sequelae of drug-resistant HBV in HIV-HBV-coinfected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy

Antivir Ther. 2010;15(3 Pt B):487-91. doi: 10.3851/IMP1553.

Abstract

Several of the nucleoside/nucleotide analogues used to treat HIV also inhibit HBV replication, with lamivudine being the oldest of this group. Thus, prior to licensing of tenofovir, many HIV-HBV-coinfected individuals received lamivudine as the only drug active against HBV as part of an anti-HIV regimen, which set the stage for the emergence of drug-resistant HBV. In coinfected persons, lamivudine-resistant HBV develops more rapidly than in HBV-monoinfected persons, but it is not known if this is true for the newer agents. Owing to overlapping reading frames of the HBV polymerase and surface antigens, drug-resistant changes in HBV Pol can lead to mutations in the envelope. This review will discuss studies of drug-resistant HBV in HIV-infected persons including drug-resistant mutations that have been identified and clinical sequelae of these mutations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active*
  • Antiviral Agents / pharmacology
  • Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use
  • Drug Resistance, Viral* / genetics
  • HIV Infections / complications*
  • HIV Infections / drug therapy
  • HIV Infections / virology
  • HIV-1 / drug effects
  • Hepatitis B / complications*
  • Hepatitis B / drug therapy
  • Hepatitis B / physiopathology*
  • Hepatitis B / virology
  • Hepatitis B virus / drug effects*
  • Hepatitis B virus / genetics
  • Hepatitis B virus / pathogenicity
  • Humans
  • Mutation
  • Nucleosides / chemistry
  • Nucleosides / pharmacology
  • Nucleosides / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Antiviral Agents
  • Nucleosides