The response rate to interferon alfa (IFN-alpha) in patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 isolates is poor. A region associated with sensitivity to IFN has been identified in subtype HCV-1b isolates from Japanese patients in the carboxyterminal half of the nonstructural protein N
Mutations in the nonstructural 5A region of hepatitis C virus and response of chronic hepatitis C to interferon alfa
β Scribed by G Squadrito; F Leone; M Sartori; B Nalpas; P Berthelot; G Raimondo; S Pol; C Brechot
- Book ID
- 119755770
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 304 KB
- Volume
- 113
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-5085
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