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Trial reportClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2014

Infrequent development of resistance in genotype 1-6 hepatitis C virus-infected subjects treated with sofosbuvir in phase 2 and 3 clinical trials.

Evguenia S Svarovskaia, Hadas Dvory-Sobol, Neil Parkin, Christy Hebner, Viktoria Gontcharova, Ross Martin, Wen Ouyang, Bin Han, Simin Xu, Karin Ku and 12 more

Abstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIClinical Trial, Phase III
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Trial report in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

89 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Reinfection and Resistance Associated Substitutions Following a Minimal Monitoring Approach for Hepatitis C Virus Treatment in MINMON Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025
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  11. A Bibliometric Analysis of the HCV Drug-Resistant Majority and Minority Variants.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Evguenia S SvarovskaiaGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Hadas Dvory-SobolGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Neil ParkinData First Consulting Inc, Belmont, California.
Christy HebnerGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Viktoria GontcharovaGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Ross MartinGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Wen OuyangGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Bin HanGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Simin XuGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Karin KuGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Sophia ChiuGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Edward GaneUniversity of Auckland, Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand.
Ira M JacobsonWeill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
David R NelsonUniversity of Florida, Gainesville.
Eric LawitzTexas Liver Institute, San Antonio.
David L WylesDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Diego.
Neby BekeleGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Diana BrainardGilead Sciences, Foster City.
William T SymondsGilead Sciences, Foster City.
John G McHutchisonGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Michael D MillerGilead Sciences, Foster City.
Hongmei MoGilead Sciences, Foster City.

Funding

UF Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR000064 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI NELSON, DAVID R · 2012 to 2014
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NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000064
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSofosbuvir is a chain-terminating nucleotide analogue inhibitor of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS5B RNA polymerase that is efficacious in subjects with HCV genotype 1-6 infection. Sofosbuvir resistance is primarily conferred by the S282T substitution in NS5B.

methodsNS5B sequencing and susceptibility testing of HCV from subjects infected with genotypes 1-6 who participated in phase 2 and 3 sofosbuvir clinical trials was performed.

resultsNo NS5B variants present at baseline among 1645 sofosbuvir-treated subjects were associated with treatment failure; sofosbuvir susceptibility was within 2-fold of reference. Among 282 subjects who did not achieve sustained virologic response, no novel sofosbuvir resistance-associated variants were identified, and the NS5B changes observed did not confer significant reductions in sofosbuvir susceptibility. In 1 subject with S282T observed at relapse 4 weeks after sofosbuvir monotherapy, the resistant variant (13.5-fold reduced sofosbuvir susceptibility, replication capacity <2% of control) became undetectable by deep sequencing 12 weeks after treatment. L159F and V321A were identified as treatment-emergent variants but did not confer resistance to sofosbuvir in the replicon system.

conclusionsThese data demonstrate a uniform susceptibility of subject-derived HCV to sofosbuvir, and also show that selection of sofosbuvir-resistant HCV is exceedingly rare and is associated with a significant reduction in viral fitness.

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsDrug Resistance, ViralFemaleHepacivirusHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMalePhenotypeSofosbuvirTreatment OutcomeUridine MonophosphateAntiviral AgentsSofosbuvirUridine Monophosphateantiviral resistanceGS-7977HCVNS5B polymerasesofosbuvir

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PMID25266287
PMCPMC6433438

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