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Effect of interferon treatment on serum 2',5'-oligoadenylate synthetase levels in hepatitis C-infected patients.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Oct 2000
Murashima S, Kumashiro R, Ide T, Miyajima I, Hino T, Koga Y, Ishii K, Ueno T, Sakisaka S, Sata M
Abstract excerpt
Interferon (IFN) is widely used for patients with hepatitis C. Less than half of treated patients respond to IFN therapy, however, and increased resistance to IFN is particularly observed in genotype 1b patients. Recently, genotype 1b patients with the wild type sequence in the NS5A gene were shown to be resistant to therapy, suggesting that the NS5A protein may be involved to IFN resistance. Thus, we...
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