Keeping Hepatitis C Virus At Bay After A Liver Transplant
Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 15:28
in Health & Medicine
Individuals infected with hepatitis C virus who receive a liver transplant find that their new liver becomes infected with HCV almost immediately. However, researcher in Japan have developed an approach that transiently keeps HCV levels down in most treated HCV-infected patients receiving a new liver.
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