A new era in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection.

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Treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has evolved over the past three decades. At the start, treatment involved interferon monotherapy followed by combination therapy using interferon and ribavirin, and subsequently evolved to pegylated interferon (Peg-IFN) and ribavirin. In genotype 1 infection, rates of sustained virological response (SVR) are approximately 45 % with Peg-IFN and ribavirin,...

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