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Hepatitis C virus diversity and evolution in the full open-reading frame during antiviral therapy.
PloS one - 7 May 2008
Cannon Nathan A, Donlin Maureen J, Fan Xiaofeng, Aurora Rajeev, Tavis John E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Pegylated interferon plus ribavirin therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) fails in approximately half of genotype 1 patients. Treatment failure occurs either by nonresponse (minimal declines in viral titer) or relapse (robust initial responses followed by rebounds of viral titers during or after therapy). HCV is highly variable genetically. To determine if viral genetic differences contribute to the...
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