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Interferon and ribavirin therapy does not select for resistance mutations in hepatitis C virus polymerase.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Aug 2008
Ward C L, Dev A, Rigby S, Symonds W T, Patel K, Zekry A, Pawlotsky J-M, McHutchison J G
Abstract excerpt
Ribavirin has a minor and transient effect on hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication and has been suggested to select a novel mutation, F415Y, in the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of subtype 1a viruses. Twenty-nine patients with chronic hepatitis C (subtyped by INNO LiPA as 1a, 17; 1b, 11; 1a/1b, 1) who were nonresponders to interferon-based therapies were identified retrospectively and screened at Baseline, week 24...
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