Hepatitis B precore/core promoter mutations in isolates from HBV-monoinfected and HBV-HIV coinfected patients: A 3-yr prospective study

HBV isolates characterized from HIV-coinfected patients seem to be more prone to exhibit a wild type genomic pattern at BCP regulatory region with respect to those from HBV-monoinfected ones. Besides, mutations at Pc region might be genotype-dependent in their frequency but not on HIV co-presence related.