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Telaprevir with peginterferon and ribavirin for chronic HCV genotype 1 infection.
The New England journal of medicine - 30 Apr 2009
McHutchison John G, Everson Gregory T, Gordon Stuart C, Jacobson Ira M, Sulkowski Mark, Kauffman Robert, McNair Lindsay, Alam John, Muir Andrew J
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BACKGROUND: Current therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is effective in less than 50% of patients infected with HCV genotype 1. Telaprevir, a protease inhibitor specific to the HCV nonstructural 3/4A serine protease, rapidly reduced HCV RNA levels in early studies. METHODS: We r...
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