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Preferential virological response to interferon-alpha 2a in patients with chronic hepatitis C infected by virus genotype 3a and exhibiting a low gamma-GT/ALT ratio.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 Jun 1996
Mihm S, Hartmann H, Fayyazi A, Ramadori G
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Hepatitis C virus infection causes acute and often chronic hepatitis. Therapy with interferon-alpha has been shown to induce remission of the inflammatory process within the liver and also elimination of the virus. However, only about 50% of treated patients respond in terms of at least a transient disappearance of viral RNA from the circulation below the limit of detection. In order to find prognostic factors...
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