Extended therapy duration for therapy-refractory hepatitis C patients with genotype 2
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Effectiveness of extending treatment duration in therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin for genotype 2 hepatitis C virus infection.
The effectiveness of extending treatment duration as response guided therapy was previously reported for chronic hepatitis C (CHC) genotype 1, but is still controversial for genotype 2. The present study is a retrospective cohort study to investigate the effectiveness of extending treatment duration in therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin for patients with CHC genotype 2 by focusing ...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1007-9327
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i34.5754