TY - JOUR AU - Colagrossi, Luna AU - Hermans, Lucas E AU - Salpini, Romina AU - Di Carlo, Domenico AU - Pas, Suzan D 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, Dimitros 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 - Lepej, Snjezana Zidovec AU - Weis, Nina AU - Yalcinkaya, Tülay AU - Boucher, Charles A B AU - Wensing, Annemarie M J AU - Perno, Carlo F AU - Svicher, Valentina AU - HEPVIR working group of the European Society for translational antiviral research (ESAR) PY - 2018 DO - 10.1186/s12879-018-3161-2 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/12535 T2 - BMC infectious diseases AB - HBsAg immune-escape mutations can favor HBV-transmission also in vaccinated individuals, promote immunosuppression-driven HBV-reactivation, and increase fitness of drug-resistant strains. Stop-codons can enhance HBV oncogenic-properties. Furthermore,... LA - en KW - Drug-resistance KW - HBV KW - HBsAg KW - Immune-escape KW - Stop-codons KW - Adult KW - Amino Acid Substitution KW - Antiviral Agents KW - Codon, Terminator KW - Europe KW - Female KW - Genotype KW - Hepatitis B Surface Antigens KW - Hepatitis B virus KW - Hepatitis B, Chronic KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Mutation TI - Immune-escape mutations and stop-codons in HBsAg develop in a large proportion of patients with chronic HBV infection exposed to anti-HBV drugs in Europe. TY - research article VL - 18 ER -