lamivudine (3TC) for chronic hepatitis B
November 1997
There's lots of interest in using lamivudine (3TC) for chronic hepatitis B. Lamivudine is normally used for HIV.
Hepatitis B is usually transmitted sexually. It's 100 times more contagious than HIV.
The only treatments approved for hepatitis B are alpha interferons...Intron A...Roferon A...and Wellferon.
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