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An altered cellular response to interferon and up-regulation of interleukin-8 induced by the hepatitis C viral

Sophie Girard1, Philip Shalhoub, Pascal Lescure

  • 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0666, USA.

Virology
|May 30, 2002
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