Low rate of sustained virological response in an outbreak of acute hepatitis C in HIV-infected patients

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1294-1300

  Laguno, Montserrat ^a   Martínez Rebollar, Maria ^a   Perez, Iñaki ^a   Costa, Josep ^a   Larrousse, Maria ^a   Calvo, Marta ^a   Loncá, Montse ^a   Muñoz, Ana ^a   González Cordón, Ana ^a   Blanco, José Luís ^a   Martínez, Esteban ^a   Gatell, Josep Maria ^a   Mallolas, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RIBAVIRIN;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; JAUNDICE; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBAVIRIN; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 84866692009     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: 19318405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2011.0289     Document Type: Article

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