The efficacy of extended treatment with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin in patients with HCV genotype 1 and slow virologic response in Japan
โ Scribed by Tsugiko Oze; Naoki Hiramatsu; Takayuki Yakushijin; Kiyoshi Mochizuki; Kazuho Imanaka; Akira Yamada; Masahide Oshita; Akira Kaneko; Hideki Hagiwara; Eiji Mita; Toshifumi Ito; Toshihiko Nagase; Yoshiaki Inui; Taizo Hijioka; Shinji Tamura; Harumasa Yoshihara; Eijiro Hayashi; Yasuharu Imai; Michio Kato; Atsushi Hosui; Takuya Miyagi; Yuichi Yoshida; Hisashi Ishida; Tomohide Tatsumi; Shinichi Kiso; Tatsuya Kanto; Akinori Kasahara; Tetsuo Takehara; Norio Hayashi
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 269 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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