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ArticleCurrent infectious disease reports2014

The current state and future prospects of chronic hepatitis C virus infection treatment.

Christopher Moore, Josh Levitsky

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Article in Current infectious disease reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Christopher MooreSection of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA, christopher.moore@northwestern.edu.
Josh Levitsky

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a significant cause of chronic liver disease with substantial long-term sequelae. Until very recently, therapies to cure HCV were hindered by high nonresponse rates and severe side effects. The first-generation protease inhibitor-containing regimens provided superior cure rates for many HCV-infected patients, although their side-effect profile proved to be quite burdensome. We are now witnessing the emergence of therapies with superior cure rates, limited side effects, and broad genotypic activity. Two therapies, sofosbuvir (an NS5b polymerase inhibitor) and simeprevir (a second-generation NS3/4A protease inhibitor), were approved by the Food and Drug Administration in late 2013 for use in a number of HCV populations. This review focuses primarily upon these therapies and the key studies that support their use in practice. Furthermore, representative novel antiviral therapies, in advanced stages of testing, are also reviewed.

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