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Characteristics of hepatitis C virus before and after interferon treatment in patients with ongoing viraemia but sustained biochemical response.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jan 1998
Donadel E, Pontisso P, Ruvoletto M G, Gerotto M, De Salvo G, Chemello L, Casarin C, Alberti A
Abstract excerpt
In hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, persistent viraemia can occur after successful biochemical response to interferon treatment. To assess whether this unusual profile might be due to trivial amounts of remaining virus or to the emergence of less pathogenic HCV strains, pre- and posttreatment sera from 27 patients who remained with HCV-RNA, despite sustained transaminase normalisation after interferon therapy,...
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