Hepatitis C Treatment and Barriers to Eradication
Open Access
- 1 September 2016
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology
- Vol. 7 (9) , e193
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ctg.2016.50
Abstract
To care, and high cost of the direct-acting antiviral medications. In addition, incident cases and reinfection associated with injection drug use contribute to the persistent worldwide disease burden. This article will review the current CHC treatments, and outline the remaining gaps in therapy and barriers to disease eradication....Keywords
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