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Recent studies from University of Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine I add new data to HIV/AIDS therapy

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, November 19th, 2007

A report, 'Effect of the interleukin-6 C174G gene polymorphism on treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis C in human immunodeficiency virus coinfected patients,' is newly published data in Hepatology. According to recent research from Bonn, Germany, "Hepatitis C virus (HCV)/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection poses a difficult therapeutic problem. Response to HCV-specific therapy is variable but might be influenced by host genetic factors, including polymorphisms of cytokine genes."

"Here, we studied whether interleukin-6 (IL-6) C174G gene polymorphism affects the response to antiviral treatment in HCV-infected HIV-positive subjects. We determined...

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