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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) relapses after anti-HCV therapy are more frequent in HIV-infected patients.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 1 Apr 2004
Soriano Vincent, Pérez-Olmeda Mayte, Ríos Pilar, Núñez Marina, García-Samaniego Javier, González-Lahoz Juan
Abstract excerpt
The response to standard or pegylated interferon (IFN) plus ribavirin (RBV) seems to be lower in hepatitis C virus (HCV)/HIV-coinfected subjects than in HCV-monoinfected patients. Thus, the principles guiding anti-HCV therapy in HIV-negative patients may not apply in the setting of HIV infection. We examined the rate of HCV relapse in 58 HCV/HIV-coinfected subjects who showed undetectable HCV-RNA (<600 IU/ml) at...
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