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Individualizing treatment duration in hepatitis C virus genotype 2/3-infected patients.
Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Jan 2011
Mangia Alessandra
Abstract excerpt
The drugs currently licensed for the treatment of hepatitis C are Peg-Interferon (PEG-IFN) and ribavirin. In recent years, the recommendation to treat hepatitis C virus genotype 2- and 3-infected patients with a fixed 800 mg/day dose of ribavirin in combination with PEG-IFN and for just 24 weeks has been challenged by the concept of tailoring the length of therapy according to on-treatment viral response....
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