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Hepatitis C

Treatment triumphs

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A stampede of recent clinical studies suggests that we are on the cusp of developing well-tolerated, orally delivered drugs that can effectively eradicate hepatitis C virus from most, if not all, infected individuals.

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Figure 1: HCV trajectory.

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  1. Charles M. Rice and Mohsan Saeed are in the Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA.,

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