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An Update on Treatment of Genotype 1 Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection: 2011 Practice Guideline by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases

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The standard of care (SOC) therapy for patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been the use of both peginterferon (PegIFN) and ribavirin (RBV) as mentioned in this paper.
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This article is published in Hepatology.The article was published on 2011-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1117 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Boceprevir & Telaprevir.

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Treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection after liver transplantation

TL;DR: An overview of antiviral treatment in patients in the transplant arena and the potential opportunities and challenges with the introduction of new directly acting antivirals in G1 patients is provided.
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Should NS5A inhibitors serve as the scaffold for all-oral anti-HCV combination therapies?

TL;DR: The rational design of an optimal anti-HCV DAA cocktail is discussed, with a focus on the role of NS5A in the HCV life cycle, the attributes of theNS5A class of inhibitors, and the potential for NS5a inhibitors to act as a scaffold for DAA-only treatment regimens.
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Pegylated interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin for treatment of chronic hepatitis C.

TL;DR: Peginterferon alfa-2b, which was developed in India, in combination with ribavirin, is a safe and effective drug in the treatment of HCV.
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Inhibition of hepatitis C viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase by α-P-boranophosphate nucleotides: exploring a potential strategy for mechanism-based HCV drug design.

TL;DR: For the first time, it is shown that the boranophosphate (BP) modification increases the substrate efficiency of ATP analogs into HCV NS5BΔ55 RdRP-catalyzed RNA, and supports the idea that HCVNS5B (in a similar manner to HIV-1 RT) discriminates against the 3'-deoxy modification.
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Peginterferon alfa-2a plus ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C virus infection.

TL;DR: In patients with chronic hepatitis C, once-weekly peginterferon alfa-2a plus ribavirin was tolerated as well as interferonAlfa- 2b plus Ribavirin and produced significant improvements in the rate of sustained virologic response, as compared with interfer on alfa -2b plus ribvirin or pegin terferonalfa-3a alone.
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Peginterferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin compared with interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin for initial treatment of chronic hepatitis C: a randomised trial.

TL;DR: In patients with chronic hepatitis C, the most effective therapy is the combination of peginterferon alfa-2b 1.5 microg/kg per week plus ribavirin, and this randomised trial found that the benefit is mostly achieved in patients with HCV genotype 1 infections.
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Genetic variation in IL28B predicts hepatitis C treatment-induced viral clearance.

TL;DR: It is reported that a genetic polymorphism near the IL28B gene, encoding interferon-λ-3 (IFN-α-2a) is associated with an approximately twofold change in response to treatment, both among patients of European ancestry and African-Americans.
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Peginterferon-alpha2a and ribavirin combination therapy in chronic hepatitis C: a randomized study of treatment duration and ribavirin dose.

TL;DR: Treatment with peginterferon-alpha2a and ribavirin may be individualized by genotype, and in patients infected with HCV genotype 1, 48 weeks of treatment was statistically superior to 24 weeks and standard-dose ribvirin was statistically inferior to low-dose Ribavirin.
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Telaprevir for Previously Untreated Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

TL;DR: Telaprevir with peginterferon-ribavirin was associated with significantly improved rates of sustained virologic response in patients with HCV genotype 1 infection who had not received previous treatment, with only 24 weeks of therapy administered in the majority of patients.
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