Response to interferon of GB virus C and hepatitis C virus in patients with chronic hepatitis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1981-1985

  Inoue, Taisuke ^b   Sakamoto, Minoru ^b   Akahane, Yoshihiro ^b   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^b   Miyakawa, Yuzo ^b   Mayumi, Makoto ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2B INTERFERON; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DRUG EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HIV ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030722337     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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