New antiviral therapies for chronic hepatitis C.

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Published in Hepatol Int on August 19, 2010

Authors

Tatsuo Kanda1, Fumio Imazeki, Osamu Yokosuka

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine and Clinical Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba, 260-8677 Japan.

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