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Tamer Elbaz1, Mohamed El-Kassas2, Gamal Esmat1
1Endemic Medicine and Hepatogastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.
Abstract:
The pegylated interferon regimen has long been the lone effective management of chronic hepatitis C with modest response. The first appearance of protease inhibitors included boceprevir and telaprevir. However, their efficacy was limited to genotype 1. Recently, direct antiviral agents opened the gate for a real effective management of HCV, certainly after FDA approval of some compounds that further paved the way for the appearance of enormous potent direct antiviral agents that may achieve successful eradication of HCV.
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