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A statistical analysis of predictive factors of response to human lymphoblastoid interferon in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
The American journal of gastroenterology - 1 Dec 1994
Hayashi J, Ohmiya M, Kishihara Y, Tani Y, Kinukawa N, Ikematsu H, Kashiwagi S
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OBJECTIVE: To determine markers predictive of effective interferon treatment for patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, we studied 80 Japanese patients treated for 6 months with natural interferon-alpha. METHODS: Serum samples were tested for HCV RNA by two-stage polymerase chain reaction (PCR). HCV RNA were grouped into four genotypes by amplification of core-gene sequences by PCR with...
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