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ReviewGMS infectious diseases2016

Genotypic resistance testing of HCV - is there a clinical need?

Andreas Walker, Rolf Kaiser, Ralf Bartenschlager, Jörg Timm

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Review in GMS infectious diseases, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Andreas WalkerInstitute for Virology, Heinrich-Heine-University, University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Rolf KaiserInstitute of Virology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Ralf BartenschlagerDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Jörg TimmInstitute for Virology, Heinrich-Heine-University, University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DEHeidelberg University · DEUniversity of Cologne · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Persistent infections with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) pose a profound global public health burden. In the past 5 years treatment of chronic hepatitis C has dramatically changed. Novel direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) specifically inhibiting viral enzymes or factors that are essential for the viral replication cycle have been developed and licensed for hepatitis C therapy. These novel drugs target the viral NS3/4A protease, the NS5B RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase or the replication factor NS5A. Combinations of DAAs against these targets are highly efficacious achieving virus elimination in the majority of treated patients. In countries where affordable, this rapid clinical development virtually replaced earlier interferon (IFN)-α based therapy that had been in use as standard of care for the last 25 years. With the approval of DAAs for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C the question emerged whether resistance-associated substitutions (RASs) might be of clinical relevance. Here, we discuss the available evidence for the possible benefit of resistance genotyping prior to therapy to optimize treatment of chronic hepatitis C.

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antiviral agentsDAAdirect-acting antiviralHCVhepatitis Cresistanceviral drug resistance

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PMID30671319
PMCPMC6301723
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