HCV
sa smith | July 23, 2013The best mysteries are ones where the reader, if they are following along carefully, can figure out the answer to the problem as the lead characters do.
If you read science blogs and love evolution, then you know exactly where this is headed:
Molecular evolution in court: analysis of a large hepatitis C virus outbreak from an evolving source.
Lets say you are an epidemiologist, and youve noticed something peculiar-- numerous individuals have turned up with Hepatitis C infections. Well, people get HepC all the time, thats not noteworthy. BUT... there were a *lot* of people getting sick. Not…
sa smith | April 5, 2011The last time I wrote about a new avenue of treatment with Hepatitis C was in 2009. And it was a very new, very far-out kinda treatment.
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Now in 2011, I have another treatment breakthrough to talk about-- its more of a traditional antiviral therapy (protease inhibitor), and it works (especially on a variant of HepC that is difficult to treat, in racial populations that are difficult to treat), but Ive still got a Star-Wars-esque 'bad feeling about this...'Boceprevir for Untreated Chronic HCV Genotype 1 Infection
Boceprevir for Previously Treated Chronic HCV Genotype 1 Infection
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