Abstract
We depleted the intestinal microbiota of mice with antibiotics before inoculation with poliovirus, an enteric virus. Antibiotic-treated mice were less susceptible to poliovirus disease and supported minimal viral replication in the intestine. Exposure to bacteria or their N-acetylglucosamine-contain...
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PMID: 21998395
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We found that MMTV, when ingested by newborn mice, stimulates a state of unresponsiveness toward viral antigens. This process required the intestinal microbiota, as antibiotic-treated mice or germ-free mice did not transmit infectious virus to their offspring. MMTV-bound bacterial lipopolysaccharide...
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PMID: 21998394
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David W Kimberlin,
Richard J Whitley,
Wen Wan,
Dwight A Powell,
Gregory Storch,
Amina Ahmed,
April Palmer,
Pablo J Sánchez,
Richard F Jacobs,
John S Bradley,
Joan L Robinson,
Mark Shelton,
Penelope H Dennehy,
Charles Leach,
Mobeen Rathore,
Nazha Abughali,
Peter Wright,
Lisa M Frenkel,
Rebecca C Brady,
Russell Van Dyke,
Leonard B Weiner,
Judith Guzman-Cottrill,
Carol A McCarthy,
Jill Griffin,
Penelope Jester,
Misty Parker,
Fred D Lakeman,
Huichien Kuo,
Choo Hyung Lee,
Gretchen A Cloud and
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Collaborative Antiviral Study Group
Abstract
We enrolled neonates with HSV disease in two parallel, identical, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies. Neonates with central nervous system (CNS) involvement were enrolled in one study, and neonates with skin, eye, and mouth involvement only were enrolled in the other. After completing a regime...
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PMID: 21991950
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We assessed RV5 coverage and diarrhea-associated health care use from July 2007 through June 2009 versus July 2001 through June 2006 in children under 5 years of age. We compared the rates of diarrhea-associated health care use in unvaccinated children in the period from January through June (when r...
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PMID: 21992123
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Kenneth E Sherman,
Steven L Flamm,
Nezam H Afdhal,
David R Nelson,
Mark S Sulkowski,
Gregory T Everson,
Michael W Fried,
Michael Adler,
Hendrik W Reesink,
Marie Martin,
Abdul J Sankoh,
Nathalie Adda,
Robert S Kauffman,
Shelley George,
Christopher I Wright,
Fred Poordad and
ILLUMINATE Study Team
Abstract
We designed a noninferiority trial (noninferiority margin, -10.5%) to compare rates of sustained virologic response among patients receiving two treatment durations.
We enrolled patients with chronic infection with HCV genotype 1 who had not previously received treatment. All patient...
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PMID: 21916639
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Abstract
We consistently observed that the PA gene of H1N1(pdm) results in increased polymerase activity, better replication in mice, and lower LD₅₀. Our findings suggest that monitoring of gene reassortment for the 2009 pandemic influenza and seasonal human viruses is also important, which would help to...
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PMID: 21849283
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We used spatially structured, experimental populations of the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens, cultured with or without the phage SBW25Ф2 under three levels of dispersal (none, localized or global), and quantified diversity in terms of evolved bacterial colony morphologies after approximately 100...
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PMID: 21325308
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Chronic treatment of SLK cells with one of the five HIV-PIs alone or together resulted in increased resistance to doxorubicin. Co-treatment with one of the HIV-PIs in combination with doxorubicin resulted in a synergistic increase in resistance to doxorubicin, and the degree of resistance was found t...
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PMID: 21829205
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Abstract
Orthotopic-liver-transplantation (OLT) in patients with Human-Immunodeficiency-Virus infection (HIV) and end-stage-liver-disease (ESDL) is rarely reported. The purpose of this study is to describe our institutional experience on OLT for HIV positive patients.
This is...
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PMID: 21813377
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Abstract
We also studied progression of fibrosis in relation to rs12979860 C/T genotypes over two years.
82% of the patients were on HAART (74% without detectable HI viremia) and 67% were haemophiliacs, respectively. HCV genotype 1 was present in 62%. Cross-sectional median liver stiffness wa...
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PMID: 21813376
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We show here a study on the pathogenesis and the physiopathology of ROCV disease in the central nervous system of a Balb/C young adult mice experimental model. The animals were intraperitoneally infected by ROCV and followed from 0 to 9 days after infection, when all of them died. Nervous tissue sam...
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PMID: 21813860
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Galit Alter,
David Heckerman,
Arne Schneidewind,
Lena Fadda,
Carl M Kadie,
Jonathan M Carlson,
Cesar Oniangue-Ndza,
Maureen Martin,
Bin Li,
Salim I Khakoo,
Mary Carrington,
Todd M Allen and
Marcus Altfeld
Abstract
We describe KIR-associated amino-acid polymorphisms in the HIV-1 sequence of chronically infected individuals, on a population level. We show that these KIR-associated HIV-1 sequence polymorphisms can enhance the binding of inhibitory KIRs to HIV-1-infected CD4(+) T cells, and reduce the antiviral a...
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PMID: 21814282
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Makoura M Barro,
Jérôme J Some,
Vincent V Foulongne,
Yaya Y Diasso,
Emmanuelle E Zouré,
Hervé H Hien,
Rouet R François,
Segondy S Michel,
Aly A Drabo,
Hassane H Tamboura,
Adama A Ouiminga,
Serge S Diagbouga,
Alain A Hien,
Souleymane S Yaméogo,
Philippe P Van De Perre,
Boubacar B Nacro and
Philippe P Msellati
Abstract
Access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and routine laboratory monitoring are limited for HIV-1-infected children from sub-Saharan Africa. This trial conducted in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, aimed to describe the biological efficacy, tolerance, and adherence of the combination of di...
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PMID: 21857286
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Abstract
We characterize previously undetected microbial metabolic capabilities concealed within the genomes of uncultured marine viral communities. A total of 34 microbial gene families were detected on 452 viral GOS scaffolds. The majority of auxiliary metabolic genes found on these scaffolds have never be...
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PMID: 21307954
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Abstract
We discuss the evidence suggesting a causal relationship between selected infectious agents and the pro-tumoral reprogramming of inflammatory cells, as well as its significance in tumor development. Finally, we discuss the implications of this phenomenon for both cancer prevention and therapy....
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PMID: 21093147
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Ira M Jacobson,
John G McHutchison,
Geoffrey Dusheiko,
Adrian M Di Bisceglie,
K Rajender Reddy,
Natalie H Bzowej,
Patrick Marcellin,
Andrew J Muir,
Peter Ferenci,
Robert Flisiak,
Jacob George,
Mario Rizzetto,
Daniel Shouval,
Ricard Sola,
Ruben A Terg,
Eric M Yoshida,
Nathalie Adda,
Leif Bengtsson,
Abdul J Sankoh,
Tara L Kieffer,
Shelley George,
Robert S Kauffman,
Stefan Zeuzem and
ADVANCE Study Team
Abstract
We assigned 1088 patients with HCV genotype 1 infection who had not received previous treatment for the infection to one of three groups: a group receiving telaprevir combined with peginterferon alfa-2a and ribavirin for 12 weeks (T12PR group), followed by peginterferon-ribavirin alone for 12 weeks...
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PMID: 21696307
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Abstract
I and Subgroup Id. The 22 isolates could be further subdivided into 2 groups: Id1 (n = 20) and Id2 (n = 2). A marker (a non-conservative nucleotide substitution) for the Id1 SVCV group was identified. It was specifically found in all sequences of Id1 isolates when testing SVCV originating from diffe...
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PMID: 21848117
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We describe the development and validation of a rapid, sensitive and specific real-time reverse transcription quantitative PCR assay (RT-qPCR) that amplifies sequence from representative isolates of all VHSV genotypes (I, II, III and IV). The pan-specific VHSV RT-qPCR assay reliably detects 100 copi...
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PMID: 21848118
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Suresh B Boppana,
Shannon A Ross,
Masako Shimamura,
April L Palmer,
Amina Ahmed,
Marian G Michaels,
Pablo J Sánchez,
David I Bernstein,
Robert W Tolan,
Zdenek Novak,
Nazma Chowdhury,
William J Britt,
Karen B Fowler and
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders CHIMES Study
Abstract
We compared real-time PCR assays of liquid-saliva and dried-saliva specimens with rapid culture of saliva specimens obtained at birth.
A total of 177 of 34,989 infants (0.5%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.4 to 0.6) were positive for CMV, according to at least one of the three metho...
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PMID: 21631323
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We exposed bluegills Lepomis macrochirus to VHSV-IVb by intraperitoneal injection at six temperatures from 10 degrees C to 30 degrees C and followed the disease course by quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qrt-RT-PCR). Mortality of injected fish was 90% at 10 deg...
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PMID: 21834331
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Dequan Zeng,
Tao Zhang,
Shengtao Zhou,
Hao Hu,
Jingyi Li,
Kai Huang,
Yunlong Lei,
Kui Wang,
Yong Zhao,
Rui Liu,
Qiu Li,
Yanjun Wen and
Canhua Huang
Abstract
We utilized a proteomics strategy to characterize proteome-wide alterations between MP-treated MKN28 lines and their untreated counterparts. A total of 97 spots were positively identified as differentially expressed, and of these 62 proteins were up-regulated, whereas 35 proteins were down-regulated...
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PMID: 21574062
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Abstract
We found that MNV infection can accelerate bacteria-induced inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) progression in Mdr1a(-/-) mice. The studies presented here examined whether MNV infection also affects the phenotype of a bacterially driven mouse model of inflammation-associated colon cancer in genetically...
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PMID: 21819691
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We provide in-vivo data in macaques showing an increased percentage of α₄β₇ (high) CD4⁺ T cells in rectal mucosa, iliac lymph nodes and blood within 6 days of rectal exposure to live (n = 11), but not UV-treated (n = 8), HSV-2. We found that CD11c⁺ DCs are a major target of HSV-2 i...
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PMID: 21738472
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Abstract
We characterized the F strain of herpes simplex virus-1 passaged in the presence of a natural carrageenan isolated from the red seaweed Gigartina skottbergii in view of the virulence for mice of isolated viral clones.
Viral clones (syn14-1 and syn17-2) showed a syncytial phenotype an...
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PMID: 22256337
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Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna,
Gavin J D Smith,
Oliver G Pybus,
Huachen Zhu,
Samir Bhatt,
Leo L M Poon,
Steven Riley,
Justin Bahl,
Siu K Ma,
Chung L Cheung,
Ranawaka A P M Perera,
Honglin Chen,
Kennedy F Shortridge,
Richard J Webby,
Robert G Webster,
Yi Guan and
J S Malik Peiris
Abstract
We quantify the epidemiological, genetic and antigenic dynamics of SwIV in Hong Kong using a data set of more than 650 SwIV isolates and more than 800 swine sera from 12 years of systematic surveillance in this region, supplemented with data stretching back 34 years. Intercontinental virus movem...
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PMID: 21614079
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This study was carried out to investigate whether the congenital HCMV infection affect the induction and maintenance of LTP /DP. Rat models of Sprague-Dawley rats congenitally infected by HCMV were made. Field excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) were recorded in the hippocampa...
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PMID: 21396925
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Elke Hammer,
Michelle Goritzka,
Sabine Ameling,
Katrin Darm,
Leif Steil,
Karin Klingel,
Christiane Trimpert,
Lars R Herda,
Marcus Dörr,
Heyo K Kroemer,
Reinhard Kandolf,
Alexander Staudt,
Stephan B Felix and
Uwe Völker
Abstract
We observed decreased levels of mitochondrial proteins involved in oxidative phosphorylation and tricarboxylic acid cycle. Furthermore, deregulation of proteins of carbohydrate metabolism, the actin cytoskeleton, and extracellular matrix remodeling was observed. Proteomic observations were confirmed...
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PMID: 21417265
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We describe two complete ssDNA phage genomes that were reconstructed from a viral metagenome from 80 m depth at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site in the northwestern Sargasso Sea and examine their spatial and temporal distributions. Both genomes (SARssφ1 and SARssφ2) exhibited s...
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PMID: 21124487
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Group B coxsackieviruses (CVB) and/or their components have been found in the blood and pancreas of patients with Type 1 diabetes (T1D). CVB infections lead to the activation of the innate and adaptive immune systems, which can result in the induction or aggravation of autoimmune pro...
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PMID: 21595602
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PURPOSE. Topical biphasic vesicle delivery system encapsulating interferon alpha (IFN α) was developed as an alternative to injections used to treat human papillomavirus (HPV) infections. METHODS. Biphasic lipid vesicles encapsulating increasing doses of IFN α (biphasic IFN α) wer...
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PMID: 21291377
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Abstract
Measurement of human immunodeficiency virus(HIV) incidence among female sex workers in Rwanda is a key part of preparing for HIV prevention trials.
HIV-negative, nonpregnant female sex workers (N =397) were tested for HIV-1, sexually transmitted infections, and pregna...
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PMID: 22256340
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We describe in detail the PBMC-based assay, which is more laborious but in our opinion represents a closer approximation of the in vivo situation. As with all other in vitro assays the results of such measurements are only an indication of the antibody potency in vivo, and animal studies and ultimat...
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PMID: 19252841
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Abstract
The production of recombinant proteins usually involves the exploration of a wide variety of expression and purification methodologies in the pursuit of a strategy tailored to a particular protein. The methods applied are reliant on exploiting individual differences between expression systems or the...
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PMID: 18988024
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Abstract
These results differ from what has been reported in in vitro studies, and indicate that different PBMC subpopulations may play different roles in EHV-1 viremia.
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PMID: 21093993
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Since herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) antibody tests have become commercially available, an increasing number of persons have learned that they have genital herpes through serologic testing. The course of natural history of HSV-2 in asymptomatic, seropositive persons is uncertain...
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PMID: 21486977
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The main objective of present research study was to evaluate the potential of lipid nanoparticles for active delivery of an antiretroviral drug to lymphatic tissues. Stavudine entrapped drug loaded solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) were prepared and characterized for a variety of phys...
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PMID: 21612153
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We functionally characterized a stress-responsive group C MAPK gene (GhMPK2) from cotton. Northern blot analysis indicated that GhMPK2 was induced not only by signaling molecules, such as ethylene and methyl jasmonate, but also by methyl viologen-mediated oxidative stress. Transgenic tobacco (Nicoti...
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PMID: 21338470
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We investigated HCV-specific CD4+Th17 cells and their induction in OLT recipients with recurrence utilizing 51 HCV+ OLT recipients, 15 healthy controls and 9 HCV- OLT recipients. Frequency of HCV specific CD4+ Tcells secreting IFN-γ, IL-17 and IL-10 was analyzed by ELISpot. Serum cytokines and chem...
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PMID: 21446979
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We report that CD4+ T cell help in the form of IL-2 is required for IL-10 production by CTLs, but not for the induction of CTL effector cytokines. We show that IL-2 derived from CD4+ helper T cells cooperates with innate immune cell-derived IL-27 to amplify IL-10 production by CTLs through a Blimp-1...
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PMID: 21297642
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We use stem-loop real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction to quantify the expression changes of seven miRNAs and their target mRNAs in different tomato tissues during the pathogenic processes. Compared with mock-inoculated plants, the expression levels of investigated miRNAs and mRN...
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PMID: 21335334
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We provide an overview of the key causes, disease mechanisms of pathogenesis, and recommendations for treatment options including the evolving role of liver transplantation.
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PMID: 21459211
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Fred Poordad,
Jonathan McCone,
Bruce R Bacon,
Savino Bruno,
Michael P Manns,
Mark S Sulkowski,
Ira M Jacobson,
K Rajender Reddy,
Zachary D Goodman,
Navdeep Boparai,
Mark J DiNubile,
Vilma Sniukiene,
Clifford A Brass,
Janice K Albrecht,
Jean-Pierre Bronowicki and
SPRINT-2 Investigators
Abstract
We conducted a double-blind study in which previously untreated adults with HCV genotype 1 infection were randomly assigned to one of three groups. In all three groups, peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin were administered for 4 weeks (the lead-in period). Subsequently, group 1 (the control group) r...
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PMID: 21449783
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Bruce R Bacon,
Stuart C Gordon,
Eric Lawitz,
Patrick Marcellin,
John M Vierling,
Stefan Zeuzem,
Fred Poordad,
Zachary D Goodman,
Heather L Sings,
Navdeep Boparai,
Margaret Burroughs,
Clifford A Brass,
Janice K Albrecht,
Rafael Esteban and
HCV RESPOND-2 Investigators
Abstract
We randomly assigned patients (in a 1:2:2 ratio) to one of three groups. In all three groups, peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin were administered for 4 weeks (the lead-in period). Subsequently, group 1 (control group) received placebo plus peginterferon-ribavirin for 44 weeks; group 2 received boc...
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PMID: 21449784
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