Tenofovir is a more suitable treatment than entecavir for chronic hepatitis B patients carrying naturally occurring rtM204I mutations

Figure 3 Confirmation of LNA real-time PCR identification results of hepatitis B virus rtM204I (YIDD) variant and rtM204 (YMDD) wild type by direct sequencing. Nucleotide bases are shown in the parenthesis. Lower case letters represent the base in a lower amount relative to the dominant variant. Bold indicates the target amino acid and bases.