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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kaplan DE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4660249 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gastroenterology clinics of North America 20150813 4
Despite advances in therapy, hepatitis C virus infection remains a major global health issue with 3 to 4 million incident cases and 170 million prevalent chronic infections. Complex, partially understood, host-virus interactions determine whether an acute infection with hepatitis C resolves, as occurs in approximately 30% of cases, or generates a persistent hepatic infection, as occurs in the remainder. Once chronic infection is established, the velocity of hepatocyte injury and resultant fibros ...[more]