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Southeast Asian patients with chronic hepatitis C: the impact of novel genotypes and race on treatment outcome.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Nov 2002
Dev Anouk T, McCaw Rhonda, Sundararajan Vijaya, Bowden Scott, Sievert William
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype and other host and viral factors influence treatment outcome in chronic HCV infection. We evaluated the effect of race and genotype on interferon and ribavirin treatment outcome in 70 Southeast Asian (SEA) and 50 white patients. Genotype was based on the 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) with a commonly used line probe assay (INNO-LiPA HCV II) that may mistype genotype 7, 8, or 9 as...
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