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The hepatitis C virus NS5A protein and response to interferon alpha: mutational analyses in patients with chronic HCV genotype 3a infection from India.
Medical microbiology and immunology - 1 Mar 2007
Goyal Ankur, Hofmann Wolf P, Hermann Eva, Traver Stella, Hissar Syed S, Arora Naveen, Blum Hubert E, Zeuzem Stefan, Sarrazin Christoph, Sarin Shiv K
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) non-structural (NS)5A protein is linked to interferon alpha resistance in vitro and higher numbers of NS5A amino acid (aa) variations in HCV 1a/b isolates are associated with virologic response to interferon alpha-based therapy in vivo. Here, we aimed to study NS5A aa variations in Indian patients undergoing interferon alpha/ribavirin treatment infected with HCV 3a. The NS5A region [aa...
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