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Spontaneous Viral Load Decline and Subsequent Clearance of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus in Postpartum Women Correlates With Favorable Interleukin-28B Gene Allele.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Sept 2017
Hashem Mohamed, Jhaveri Ravi, Saleh Doa'a A, Sharaf Sahar A, El-Mougy Fatma, Abdelsalam Lobna, Shardell Michelle D, El-Ghazaly Hesham, El-Kamary Samer S
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BACKGROUND: Postpartum hepatitis C viral (HCV) load decline followed by spontaneous clearance has been previously described. Herein we identify predictors for viral decline in a cohort of HCV-infected postpartum women. METHODS: Pregnant women at Cairo University were screened for anti-HCV antibodies and HCV RNA, and viremic women were tested for quantitative HCV RNA at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months postpartum....
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