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Prediction of effect of interferon on chronic hepatitis C.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 Nov 1997
Takagi H, Takehara K, Shimoda R, Kakizaki S, Takayama H, Abe T, Yamada T, Hashimoto Y, Saitoh S, Matsumoto T, Kojima A, Takezawa J, Yuasa K, Moriguchi M, Sekiguchi T, Nagamine T, Mori M
Abstract excerpt
Clinical, pathological, and virological analysis including hypervariable region-1 of hepatitis C virus (HCV) was performed to predict the effect of interferon (IFN) on 41 patients with chronic hepatitis type C. The low virus load, low frequency of the mutation in the hypervariable region-1 as the change of amino acid and high level of serum aminotransferase make one estimate the good effect of IFN on patients...
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