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Interferon-alpha therapy in patients dually infected with hepatitis C virus and GB virus C/hepatitis G virus--virological response of HGV and pretreatment HGV viremia level.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Oct 1997
Orito E, Mizokami M, Yasuda K, Sugihara K, Nakamura M, Mukaide M, Ohba K I, Nakano T, Kato T, Kondo Y, Kumada T, Ueda R, Iino S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The response to interferon-alpha (IFN) therapy of recently isolated GB virus C and hepatitis G virus (HGV) is still unclear. To investigate the biochemical and virological response to IFN therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection concomitantly infected with HGV, 196 patients with HCV who had received IFN therapy were retrospectively studied. METHODS: HGV and HCV RNA were...
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