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Identification of novel defective HCV clones in liver transplant recipients with recurrent HCV infection.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Aug 2006
Iwai A, Marusawa H, Takada Y, Egawa H, Ikeda K, Nabeshima M, Uemoto S, Chiba T
Abstract excerpt
Patients with recurrent hepatitis C after liver transplantation usually have a high viral load and are generally resistant to interferon (IFN)-alpha2b plus ribavirin (RBV) therapy. However, it remains unclear whether pretreatment viral titre determines the effectiveness of combination therapy, especially in patients with a high viral load. The aim of this study was to identify the viral factors associated with a...
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