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Genetic variability of hepatitis C virus in chronically infected patients with viral breakthrough during interferon-ribavirin therapy.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Sept 2004
Vuillermoz I, Khattab E, Sablon E, Ottevaere I, Durantel D, Vieux C, Trepo C, Zoulim Fabien
Abstract excerpt
Little is known about hepatitis C virus (HCV) breakthrough during antiviral therapy, although it would help in understanding HCV resistance to current antiviral treatments. To analyse the implication of virological factors and the vigour of humoral immune responses in this phenomenon, we studied nine chronic hepatitis C patients with a viral breakthrough during IFN/ribavirin combination therapy, as well as five...
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