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Natural prevalence of resistance-associated variants in hepatitis C virus NS5A in genotype 3a-infected people who inject drugs in Germany.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Sept 2015
Walker Andreas, Siemann Holger, Groten Svenja, Ross R Stefan, Scherbaum Norbert, Timm Jörg
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: People who inject drugs (PWID) are the most important risk group for incident Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. In PWID in Europe HCV genotype 3a is highly prevalent. Unfortunately, many of the recently developed directly acting antiviral drugs against HCV (DAAs) are suboptimal for treatment of this genotype. Detection of resistance-associated variants (RAV) in genotype 3a may help to optimize...
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