Article
Baseline prevalence and emergence of protease inhibitor resistance mutations following treatment in chronic HCV genotype-1-infected individuals.
Antiviral therapy - 1 Jan 2015
Nguyen Linh Thuy, Gray Emma, Dean Jonathan, Carr Michael, Connell Jeff, De Gascun Cillian, Nguyen Lan Anh, O'Leary Aisling, Bergin Colm, Hall William, Norris Suzanne
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The HCV NS3/4A serine protease inhibitors (PIs) boceprevir (BOC), telaprevir (TVR) and simeprevir (SMV) are approved for treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection in combination with pegylated interferon and ribavirin. The present study investigated the prevalence of HCV NS3 drug resistance mutations (DRMs) associated with HCV genotype-1-infected individuals at baseline and in viral breakthrough...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
