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Understanding the hepatitis C virus life cycle paves the way for highly effective therapies.
Nature medicine - 1 Jul 2013
Scheel Troels K H, Rice Charles M
Abstract excerpt
More than two decades of intense research has provided a detailed understanding of hepatitis C virus (HCV), which chronically infects 2% of the world's population. This effort has paved the way for the development of antiviral compounds to spare patients from life-threatening liver disease. An exciting new era in HCV therapy dawned with the recent approval of two viral protease inhibitors, used in combination...
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