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Triple therapy with first generation HCV protease inhibitors: lead-in or no lead-in phase?
Journal of hepatology - 1 Feb 2013
Pascale Alina, Serfaty Lawrence
Abstract excerpt
The standard therapeutic approach currently recommended for patients infected with genotype 1 hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the triple therapy combining pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN), ribavirin (RBV)and NS3/NS4 protease inhibitors, boceprevir or telaprevir [1]. Protease inhibitors (PIs) are direct acting antiviral drugs (DAA) which, when added to PEG-IFN and RBV, are able to achieve a significant gain in terms of...
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