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SUBMITTER: Scheel TK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3984536 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scheel Troels K H TK Rice Charles M CM
Nature medicine 20130701 7
More than two decades of intense research has provided a detailed understanding of hepatitis C virus (HCV), which chronically infects 2% of the world's population. This effort has paved the way for the development of antiviral compounds to spare patients from life-threatening liver disease. An exciting new era in HCV therapy dawned with the recent approval of two viral protease inhibitors, used in combination with pegylated interferon-α and ribavirin; however, this is just the beginning. Multipl ...[more]