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Telaprevir Treatment Decays Hepatitis C Virus Faster in Blood than Liver
By Catherine Kolonko | September 10, 2014
A recent study found that the hepatitis C virus decays during treatment with telaprevir faster in the bloodstream than it does in the liver, a discovery that could help pinpoint how long a patient needs to take medicine to rid the virus from the body.
The study was conducted by Andrew Talal, MD, and other researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and the findings published in Hepatology. It was the first time scientists traced in real time how the drug telaprevir inhibits viral replication in the liver and clears the virus from the cells and plasma of infected patients, study authors said in a release.
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