Pretreatment serum hepatitis C virus RNA levels and hepatitis C virus genotype are the main and independent prognostic factors of sustained response to interferon alfa therapy in chronic hepatitis C*1
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- Book ID
- 121886774
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 772 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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