diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index be722c53..95fe0005 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ v2.0.0 (TBA)
 -Fixed (issue #757) - Download gradle binaries over https
 -Fixed (issue #402) - Fix issues when running user has no access to $HOME.
 -Fixed (issue #761) - Added proper support for BCP47 localization tags
+-Fixed (issue #658) - Fixes Ampersand in "<" gets replaced with "&" in plural strings
 -Fixed issue with attempting to decode .spi files as 9 patches (Thanks Furniel)
 -Fixed issue with APKs with multiple dex files.
 -Fixed issue with using Apktool without smali/baksmali for ApktoolProperties (Thanks teprrr)
diff --git a/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/main/java/org/xmlpull/mxp1_serializer/MXSerializer.java b/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/main/java/org/xmlpull/mxp1_serializer/MXSerializer.java
index cee38c7f..66c69574 100644
--- a/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/main/java/org/xmlpull/mxp1_serializer/MXSerializer.java
+++ b/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/main/java/org/xmlpull/mxp1_serializer/MXSerializer.java
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer;
 /**
  * Implementation of XmlSerializer interface from XmlPull V1 API. This
  * implementation is optimzied for performance and low memory footprint.
- * 
+ *
  * <p>
  * Implemented features:
  * <ul>
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer;
  * <li>PROPERTY_SERIALIZER_INDENTATION
  * <li>PROPERTY_SERIALIZER_LINE_SEPARATOR
  * </ul>
- * 
+ *
  */
 public class MXSerializer implements XmlSerializer {
 	protected final static String XML_URI = "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";
@@ -1009,10 +1009,13 @@ public class MXSerializer implements XmlSerializer {
 				}
 			} else {
 				if (ch == '&') {
-					if (i > pos)
-						out.write(text.substring(pos, i));
-					out.write("&amp;");
-					pos = i + 1;
+					if (!(i < text.length() - 3 && text.charAt(i+1) == 'l'
+					    && text.charAt(i+2) == 't' && text.charAt(i+3) == ';')) {
+					    if (i > pos)
+					        out.write(text.substring(pos, i));
+					    out.write("&amp;");
+					    pos = i + 1;
+                    }
 				} else if (ch == '<') {
 					if (i > pos)
 						out.write(text.substring(pos, i));
diff --git a/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/test/resources/brut/apktool/testapp/res/values-mcc001/plurals.xml b/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/test/resources/brut/apktool/testapp/res/values-mcc001/plurals.xml
index 685c7623..338481cd 100644
--- a/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/test/resources/brut/apktool/testapp/res/values-mcc001/plurals.xml
+++ b/brut.apktool/apktool-lib/src/test/resources/brut/apktool/testapp/res/values-mcc001/plurals.xml
@@ -16,4 +16,8 @@
         <item quantity="other">foo %d</item>
         <item quantity="one">foo 1</item>
     </plurals>
+    <plurals name="issue_658">
+        <item quantity="other">&lt;b>%d&lt;/b> guide123</item>
+        <item quantity="one">&lt;b>%d&lt;/b> 1</item>
+    </plurals>
 </resources>
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