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Development of an IFN-γ ELISpot Assay to Assess Varicella-Zoster Virus-specific Cell-mediated Immunity Following Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation
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Effectiveness of early alpha-interferon therapy for hepatitis C virus infection recurrence after liver
O Boillot1, F Berger, E Rasolofo
1Unité de Transplantation Hépatique, Fédération des Spécialités Digestives, hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France.
Abstract:
The results in this short series show that early and prolonged alpha-interferon therapy for hepatitis C virus recurrence after liver transplantation could bring some benefit to the infected liver grafts. The risk of graft rejection was clearly minimised by maintaining immunosuppression at normal levels.
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