Predicting Treatment Response and the Role of the ISG15/USP18 Ubiquitin-like Signaling Pathway in Hepatitis C Viral Infection

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infects 170 million people worldwide. The current treatment regimen, which is combination therapy with pegylated interferon (PegIFN) and Ribavirin (Rib), cures only 50% of the patients infected with the most prevalent HCV genotype. Therefore, there is a pressing need to unde...

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Main Author: Chen, Limin
Other Authors: Edwards, Aled M.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26137