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Serum hepatitis C virus RNA levels in chronic hepatitis C--importance for outcome of interferon alfa-2b treatment.
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 1994
Yun Z B, Reichard O, Chen M, Lundeberg J, Norkrans G, Fryden A, Sönnerborg A, Weiland O
Abstract excerpt
Sera from 39 out of 40 patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection who had been treated for 60 weeks with interferon alfa-2b proved initially HCV RNA positive by reversed transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (PCR). These patients were analysed for genotype and quantitatively for HCV RNA levels prior to treatment by using a competitive PCR method with colorimetric detection of the amplified...
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