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Pretreatment prediction of virological response to peginterferon plus ribavirin therapy in chronic hepatitis C patients using viral and host factors

✍ Scribed by Haruaki Shirakawa; Akihiro Matsumoto; Satoru Joshita; Michiharu Komatsu; Naoki Tanaka; Takeji Umemura; Tetsuya Ichijo; Kaname Yoshizawa; Kendo Kiyosawa; Eiji Tanaka; Nagano Interferon Treatment Research Group

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 181 KB
Volume: 48
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22543

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