- ►thelancet.com G Greub, B Ledergerber, M Battegay, P Grob, L … - The Lancet, 2000 - Elsevier 1157 patients (37·2%) were coinfected with HCV, 1015 of whom (87·7%) had a
history of intravenous drug use. In multivariate Cox's regression, the
probability of progression to a new AIDS-defining clinical event or to ... Cited by 600 - Related articles - All 7 versions
LB Seeff - Hepatology, 2002 - hawaii.edu Much controversy surrounds the issue of the natural history of hepatitis C virus
(HCV) infection. Many authorities view the disease as inexorably progressive
with a high probabil- ity of advancing over time to cirrhosis and ... Cited by 557 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 16 versions
JH Hoofnagle - Utilization of Virologic Testing in the Treatment of Chronic … - aegis.com 1 The Course and Outcome of Hepatitis C Jay H. Hoofnagle, MD Hepatitis C is
caused by a small RNA virus that belongs to the family flaviviridae and is the
sole member of the genus hepacivirus. First identified in 1989, the ... Cited by 420 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 12 versions
P Glue, JWS Fang, R Rouzier-Panis, C … - Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2000 - nature.com Correspondence: Paul Glue, MD, PhD, Schering-Plough Research Institute,
K-15-4455, 2015 Galloping Hill Rd, Kenilworth, NJ 07033. ... * A list of
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A Freeman, GJ Dore, MG Law, M Thorpe, J … - Hepatology, 2001 - interscience.wiley.com To gain a clearer understanding of the rate of progression to cirrhosis and its
determinants in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, a systematic review
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- ►isa-geek.com [PDF] MG Ghany, DE Kleiner, H Alter, E Doo, F … - Gastroenterology, 2003 - medscape.com Liver fibrosis is a highly dynamic process in which multiple genes interact with
environmental factors. Recent human epidemiologic studies have identified
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- ►nih.gov SJ Polyak, KSA Khabar, DM Paschal, HJ … - The Journal of Virology, 2001 - jvi.highwire.org Hepatitis C virus (HCV), a major cause of liver disease worldwide, is frequently
resistant to the antiviral alpha interferon (IFN). The HCV nonstructural 5A
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- ►bloodjournal.org S Auffermann-Gretzinger, EB Keeffe, S Levy - Blood, 2001 - Am Soc Hematology Several viruses, such as herpes simplex virus, 4 measles virus, 5 and
Epstein-Barr virus, have been shown to diminish DC function. Recently, hepatitis
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K Sugimoto, F Ikeda, J Stadanlick, FA Nunes, … - Hepatology, 2003 - interscience.wiley.com Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has a high propensity for persistence. To better define
the immunologic determinants of HCV clearance and persistence, we examined the
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