Tryptophan Breakdown in Patients with HCV Infection is Influenced by IL28B Polymorphism

• Main Authors: Heinz Zoller (Author), Annina Jenal (Author), Albert F. Staettermayer (Author), Sebastian Schroecksnadel (Author), Peter Ferenci (Author), Dietmar Fuchs (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Until recently, the standard treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection was a combination therapy with PEG-IFN-α plus ribavirin. Previous studies have proven that several markers predict the outcome of such therapy, e.g., pretreatment plasma levels of interferon inducible protein IP-10,...