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Hepatitis C virus quasispecies and response to interferon therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C: a prospective study.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jan 2000
Hino K, Yamaguchi Y, Fujiwara D, Katoh Y, Korenaga M, Okazaki M, Okuda M, Okita K
Abstract excerpt
We prospectively examined whether the complexity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) quasispecies is related to the response to interferon (IFN) therapy. Among 64 patients who had histologically proven chronic hepatitis and were treated with natural IFN-alpha, 53 patients were analysed. The other 11 patients discontinued therapy because of adverse effects of IFN. The complexity of the hypervariable region 1 (HVR 1) in...
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