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Follow-up of hepatitis C virus RNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells during interferon therapy.
Archives of virology - 1 Jan 1999
Cribier B, Uhl G, Schmitt C, Doffoël M, Vetter D, Kirn A, Stoll-Keller F
Abstract excerpt
Mononuclear cells can be infected in vitro by hepatitis C virus and the viral RNA can be detected in mononuclear cells of chronically infected patients. It was suggested that the virus could persist in the mononuclear cells of some patients treated by interferon. The aim of this study was to follow the presence of viral RNA in the plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 16 chronically infected patients...
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