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Attachment of hepatitis C virus to cultured cells: a novel predictive factor for successful interferon therapy.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Sept 1998
Kimura Y, Hayashida K, Ishibashi H, Niho Y, Akazawa K, Yanagi Y
Abstract excerpt
In order to identify reliable predictive factors for the response to interferon (IFN) therapy, we examined 52 patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection who underwent IFN therapy. Titers of free virions that were not complexed with antibodies were determined by immunoprecipitation of the pretreatment sera with antihuman immunoglobulin. Cell attachment titers were determined by inoculating HPB-Ma...
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