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Drug Resistance Profile and Clinical Features for Hepatitis C Patients Experiencing DAA Failure in Taiwan.
- Source :
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Viruses [Viruses] 2021 Nov 17; Vol. 13 (11). Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Nov 17. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- About 4% of the population in Taiwan are seropositive for anti-HCV Ab and 70% with HCV RNA. To address this high chronic hepatitis C disease load, Taiwan National Health Insurance started reimbursing genotype-specific DAAs in 2017 and pangenotype DAAs in mid-2018. With a 97% SVR12 rate, there were still 2-3% of patients that failed to clear HCV. To understand the causes of DAA failure in Taiwan, we conducted a multi-center, clinical, and virologic study. A total of 147 DAA-failure patients were recruited, and we searched HCV NS3/4A, NS5A and NS5B for known resistance-associated substitutions (RASs) by population sequencing, and conducted whole genome sequencing (WGS) for those without known RASs. A total of 107 patients received genotype-specific DAAs while 40 had pangenotype DAAs. Clinically, the important cause of failure is poor adherence. Virologically, common RASs in genotype-specific DAAs were NS5A-L31, NS5A-Y93, and NS5B-C316, while common RASs in pangenotype DAAs were NS5A-L31, NS5A-A/Q/R30, and NS5A-Y93. Additionally, new amino acid changes were found by WGS. Finally, we identified 12 cases with inconsistent baseline and post-treatment HCV genotypes, which is suggestive of re-infection rather than treatment failure. Our study described the drug resistance profile for DAA failure in Taiwan, showing differences from other countries.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Aged
Antiviral Agents administration & dosage
Drug Resistance, Viral drug effects
Female
Genotype
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase antagonists & inhibitors
RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase genetics
Taiwan
Treatment Failure
Viral Nonstructural Proteins antagonists & inhibitors
Viral Nonstructural Proteins genetics
Antiviral Agents therapeutic use
Drug Resistance, Viral genetics
Hepatitis C, Chronic drug therapy
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1999-4915
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Viruses
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 34835100
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/v13112294