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Optimal dose of peginterferon and ribavirin for treatment of chronic hepatitis C.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Sept 2008
Gambarin-Gelwan M, Jacobson I M
Abstract excerpt
Chronic hepatitis C affects 170 million people worldwide, including up to 4 million people in the United States. The current standard of care therapy with pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) and ribavirin (RBV) while highly successful in patients with genotype 2 and 3 infection, allows for sustained virologic response in 42-46% of treatment-naïve genotype 1 patients, comprising about 70% of cases of chronic hepatitis...
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