Quantification of the initial decline of serum hepatitis C virus RNA and response to interferon alfa.

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Published in Hepatology on April 01, 1998

Authors

S Zeuzem1, J H Lee, A Franke, B Rüster, O Prümmer, G Herrmann, W K Roth

Author Affiliations

1: Medizinische Klinik II, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.

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