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Claudin-6 and Occludin Natural Variants Found in a Patient Highly Exposed but Not Infected with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Do Not Confer HCV Resistance In Vitro.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Fénéant Lucie, Ghosn Jade, Fouquet Baptiste, Helle François, Belouzard Sandrine, Vausselin Thibaut, Séron Karin, Delfraissy Jean-François, Dubuisson Jean, Misrahi Micheline, Cocquerel Laurence
Abstract excerpt
The clinical course of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection is highly variable between infected individual hosts: up to 80% of acutely HCV infected patients develop a chronic infection while 20% clear infection spontaneously. Spontaneous clearance of HCV infection can be predicted by several factors, including symptomatic acute infection, favorable IFNL3 polymorphisms and gender. In our study, we explored the...
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