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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
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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 investigated in each group of patients. The serum HCV RNA concentration and the response to interferon (IFN) therapy...
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