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Patients eligible for treatment with simeprevir in a French center.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Sept 2014
Morel Virginie, Duverlie Gilles, Brochot Etienne
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Simeprevir (Olysio(®)), a second-wave protease inhibitor recently approved for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, is not indicated in patients with genotype 1a strain harboring the Q80K protease mutation. Phase 2 and 3 studies on this molecule mainly focused on North American patients and the prevalence of Q80K is particularly high in the USA (around 50%). The prevalence of this mutation in other...
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