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Hepatitis C virus-related resistance mechanisms to interferon alpha-based antiviral therapy.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Feb 2005
Hofmann Wolf Peter, Zeuzem Stefan, Sarrazin Christoph
Abstract excerpt
Only 50-60% of the patients chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) achieve a sustained virologic response to the current standard antiviral therapy consisting of pegylated interferon alpha in combination with ribavirin. The definite reasons for virologic response or non-response to interferon alpha-based therapy are unknown. Besides host and treatment efficacy factors, it is presumable that HCV is...
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