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Pretreatment resistance to hepatitis C virus protease inhibitors boceprevir/telaprevir in hepatitis C virus subgenotype 1a-infected patients from Manitoba.
Canadian journal of gastroenterology = Journal canadien de gastroenterologie - 1 Jul 2013
Andonov Anton, Kadkhoda Kamran, Osiowy Carla, Kaita Kelly
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BACKGROUND: Traditional therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin combined with the new protease inhibitors boceprevir or telaprevir has demonstrated improved outcomes in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients. Prevalence data regarding pre-existing drug-resistant variants to these two new virus inhibitors in the Canadian population are not available. OBJECTIVE: To detect pre-existing mutations...
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