Treatment of hepatitis C with new fixed dose combinations

@article{Soriano2017TreatmentOH,
  title={Treatment of hepatitis C with new fixed dose combinations},
  author={Vincent Soriano and Jos{\'e} Vicente Fern{\'a}ndez-Montero and Carmen de Mendoza and Laura Ben{\'i}tez-Guti{\'e}rrez and Jos{\'e} Ma Pe{\~n}a and Ana Arias and Pablo Barreiro},
  journal={Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy},
  year={2017},
  volume={18},
  pages={1235 - 1242}
}
ABSTRACT Introduction: The advent of oral direct-acting antivirals (DAA) has revolutionized the hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapeutic landscape providing cure rates over 90%. However, a subset of patients remains at higher risk for treatment failure, including those infected with: i) genotype 3 and cirrhosis; ii) resistance-associated substitutions (RAS) occurring either as natural polymorphisms or selected after prior DAA failure; and iii) poor drug adherence associated with social disabilities… 
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