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Sofosbuvir in the treatment of early HCV infection in HIV-infected men.
HIV clinical trials - 1 Mar 2017
El Sayed Ahmed, Barbati Zachary R, Turner Samuel S, Foster Andrew L, Morey Tristan, Dieterich Douglas T, Fierer Daniel S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: There is an international epidemic of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among HIV-infected men who have sex with men. We previously showed that adding telaprevir to pegylated interferon (IFN) and ribavirin (RBV) both shortened treatment and increased the cure rate of early HCV in these men. Whether shortening treatment of early HCV using IFN-free regimens would be similarly successful has not yet been...
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