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Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Coinfection: Don’t Stand Still Just Because the Landscape Looks Better. Stuart C. Ray, MD, FIDSA Professor of Medicine and Oncology Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland.
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Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Coinfection: Don’t Stand Still Just Because the Landscape Looks Better Stuart C. Ray, MD, FIDSAProfessor of Medicine and Oncology Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship ProgramThe Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of MedicineBaltimore, Maryland From SC Ray, MD, at Chicago, IL: May 20, 2013, IAS-USA.
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Telaprevir Added to P+Rin patients with HIV and HCV-1 Sulkowski MS, et al. NEJM 2013
Resistance: Common Themesand Some Differences • Nonsuppressive therapy generates resistance • Combination therapy: • Reduces risk of resistance with HIV and HCV • Not required for HBV (monotherapy is effective) • For HIV and HBV, resistance is “permanent” • Not known for HCV