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Predicting interferon therapy efficacy from hepatitis C virus genotype and RNA titer.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 May 1994
Mita E, Hayashi N, Hagiwara H, Ueda K, Kanazawa Y, Kasahara A, Fusamoto H, Kamada T
Abstract excerpt
We classified 53 Japanese patients with chronic hepatitis C who were treated with natural interferon-alpha into genotypes and also tested the amounts of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA. The rate of the long-term complete response group, whose alanine aminotransferase levels remained within the normal range during the six months after therapy, was significantly higher (P < 0.01) in the type-III patients (4/5, 80.0%)...
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