Treatment of hepatitis C: a systematic review.

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Abstract

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects more than 185 million individuals worldwide. Twenty percent of patients chronically infected with HCV progress to cirrhosis. New, simpler therapeutics using direct-acting antivirals that target various stages of the HCV life cycle are in development to eradicate HCV without concomitant interferon.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): JAMA

Title: JAMA

ISSN (Electronic): 1538-3598

ISSN (Print): 0098-7484

Publication date (Electronic): Aug 13 2014

Volume: 312

Issue: 6

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[1 ] Clinical Research Directorate/Clinical Monitoring Research Program, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland2Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Research Center, National Institutes of.

[2 ] Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

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Publisher Item ID: 1895252

DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.7085

PubMed ID: 25117132

SO-VID: 32bf3262-fd9b-409e-931c-5690aee15472

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