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. 2014 Jan;52(1):9–14. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01891-13

TABLE 2.

Assessment of efficacies of MALDI-TOF MS, MSSCP, INNOLiPA HBV DR, and direct sequencing assays in detection of the HBV polymorphism YMDD motif

YMDD motif (amino acid)a No. of motifs with the indicated method of YMDD polymorphism detection (n = 82)
MALDI-TOF MS MSSCP INNOLiPA HBV DR Direct sequencing
M 40 40 65 77
V 14 14 8 3
I 10 10 4 2
M/V 12 12 3 0
M/I 2 2 1 0
I/V 3 4 1 0
M/I/V 1 0 0 0
a

HBV wild type, amino acid M.