Article
Characteristics of patients with chronic infection due to hepatitis C virus of mixed subtype: prevalence, viral RNA concentrations, and response to interferon therapy.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Feb 1998
Toyoda H, Fukuda Y, Hayakawa T, Takayama T, Kumada T, Nakano S, Takamatsu J, Saito H
Abstract excerpt
We studied 349 patients with chronic infection due to hepatitis C virus (HCV), including 83 with coagulopathy, 122 with community-acquired infection, 20 with chronic posttransfusion hepatitis C, and 124 for whom the transmission mode was unknown. The prevalence of mixed-subtype HCV infection was...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Antiviral Agents
- Child
- Female
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C, Chronic
- Humans
- Interferon alpha-2
- Interferon-alpha
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Prevalence
- RNA, Viral
- Recombinant Proteins