TY - JOUR
T1 - Combined Analysis of the Prevalence of Drug-Resistant Hepatitis B Virus in Antiviral Therapy-Experienced Patients in Europe (CAPRE)
AU - Hermans, Lucas Etienne
AU - Svicher, Valentina
AU - Pas, Suzan Diepstraten
AU - Salpini, Romina
AU - Alvarez, Marta
AU - Ben Ari, Ziv
AU - Boland, Greet
AU - Bruzzone, Bianca
AU - Coppola, Nicola
AU - Seguin-Devaux, Carole
AU - Dyda, Tomasz
AU - Garcia, Federico
AU - Kaiser, Rolf
AU - Köse, Sukran
AU - Krarup, Henrik
AU - Lazarevic, Ivana
AU - Lunar, Maja M
AU - Maylin, Sarah
AU - Micheli, Valeria
AU - Mor, Orna
AU - Paraschiv, Simona
AU - Paraskevis, Dimitrios
AU - Poljak, Mario
AU - Puchhammer-Stöckl, Elisabeth
AU - Simon, François
AU - Stanojevic, Maja
AU - Stene-Johansen, Kathrine
AU - Tihic, Nijaz
AU - Trimoulet, Pascale
AU - Verheyen, Jens
AU - Vince, Adriana
AU - Weis, Nina
AU - Yalcinkaya, Tülay
AU - Lepej, Snjezana Zidovec
AU - Perno, Carlo
AU - Boucher, Charles A B
AU - Wensing, Annemarie M J
AU - HEPVIR Working Group of the European Society for Translational Antiviral Research
N1 - © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, e-mail [email protected].
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Background European guidelines recommend treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection (CHB) with the nucleos(t)ide analogs (NAs) entecavir or tenofovir. However, many European CHB patients have been exposed to other NAs, which are associated with therapy failure and resistance. The CAPRE study was performed to gain insight in prevalence and characteristics of NA resistance in Europe. Methods A survey was performed on genotypic resistance testing results acquired during routine monitoring of CHB patients with detectable serum hepatitis B virus DNA in European tertiary referral centers. Results Data from 1568 patients were included. The majority (73.8%) were exposed to lamivudine monotherapy. Drug-resistant strains were detected in 52.7%. The most frequently encountered primary mutation was M204V/I (48.7%), followed by A181T/V (3.8%) and N236T (2.6%). In patients exposed to entecavir (n = 102), full resistance was present in 35.3%. Independent risk factors for resistance were age, viral load, and lamivudine exposure (P <. 001). Conclusions These findings support resistance testing in cases of apparent NA therapy failure. This survey highlights the impact of exposure to lamivudine and adefovir on development of drug resistance and cross-resistance. Continued use of these NAs needs to be reconsidered at a pan-European level.
AB - Background European guidelines recommend treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection (CHB) with the nucleos(t)ide analogs (NAs) entecavir or tenofovir. However, many European CHB patients have been exposed to other NAs, which are associated with therapy failure and resistance. The CAPRE study was performed to gain insight in prevalence and characteristics of NA resistance in Europe. Methods A survey was performed on genotypic resistance testing results acquired during routine monitoring of CHB patients with detectable serum hepatitis B virus DNA in European tertiary referral centers. Results Data from 1568 patients were included. The majority (73.8%) were exposed to lamivudine monotherapy. Drug-resistant strains were detected in 52.7%. The most frequently encountered primary mutation was M204V/I (48.7%), followed by A181T/V (3.8%) and N236T (2.6%). In patients exposed to entecavir (n = 102), full resistance was present in 35.3%. Independent risk factors for resistance were age, viral load, and lamivudine exposure (P <. 001). Conclusions These findings support resistance testing in cases of apparent NA therapy failure. This survey highlights the impact of exposure to lamivudine and adefovir on development of drug resistance and cross-resistance. Continued use of these NAs needs to be reconsidered at a pan-European level.
KW - Adult
KW - Antiviral Agents
KW - Cross-Sectional Studies
KW - Drug Resistance, Viral
KW - Female
KW - Genotype
KW - Hepatitis B virus
KW - Hepatitis B, Chronic
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Prevalence
U2 - 10.1093/infdis/jiv363
DO - 10.1093/infdis/jiv363
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 26136470
SN - 0022-1899
VL - 213
SP - 39
EP - 48
JO - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
IS - 1
ER -