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Hepatitis C virus genotypes 1 and 2 respond to interferon-alpha with different virologic kinetics.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Oct 1995
Kohara M, Tanaka T, Tsukiyama-Kohara K, Tanaka S, Mizokami M, Lau J Y, Hattori N
Abstract excerpt
Responses of patients infected with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) to interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) treatment were studied. HCV genotypes were determined by molecular and serologic techniques. Levels of HCV viremia were determined by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Infection with HCV genotype 2 or low pretreatment HCV viremia levels in subjects infected with genotype 1 were...
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