Historical treatment of chronic hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C.
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Historical treatment of chronic hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C.
Interferon is currently considered to be the only accepted effective treatment for chronic viral hepatitis. A history of the treatment of chronic hepatitis B and C before the use of interferon is presented here. Hepatitis B virus does not seem to be directly cytopathic and the disease is known to be modulated largely by the host's immune response. Experience with immunosuppressant and immunosti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.34.2_suppl.s69