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Failure of hepatitis C therapy in HIV-coinfected drug users is not due to a shift in hepatitis C virus genotype.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2005
Soriano Vincent, Ramos Belen, Nunez Marina, Barreiro Pablo, Maida Ivana, Garcia-Samaniego Javier, Gonzalez-Lahoz Juan
Abstract excerpt
Because most patients coinfected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are injection drug users (IDUs) who might have been exposed to multiple HCV genotypes while sharing needles, coinfection with distinct HCV genotypes could be frequent in them. Blood samples from 203 coinfected IDUs who did not respond to at least 24 weeks of interferon (IFN)-based therapies were analyzed. At...
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