Once-daily simeprevir (TMC435) with pegylated interferon and ribavirin in treatment-naïve genotype 1 hepatitis C: the randomized PILLAR study.

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Published in Hepatology on October 11, 2013

Authors

Michael W Fried1, Maria Buti, Gregory J Dore, Robert Flisiak, Peter Ferenci, Ira Jacobson, Patrick Marcellin, Michael Manns, Igor Nikitin, Fred Poordad, Morris Sherman, Stefan Zeuzem, Jane Scott, Leen Gilles, Oliver Lenz, Monika Peeters, Vanitha Sekar, Goedele De Smedt, Maria Beumont-Mauviel

Author Affiliations

1: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.

Associated clinical trials:

A Study of TMC435 in Combination With Pegylated Interferon Alp\Fa-2a and Ribavirin in Patients Infected With Genotype 1 Hepatitis C Virus Who Never Received Treatment (PILLAR) | NCT00882908

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