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Hepatitis C

Treatment triumphs

A stampede of recent clinical studies suggests that we are on the cusp of developing well-tolerated, orally delivered drugs that can effectively eradicate hepatitis C virus from most, if not all, infected individuals.

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Figure 1: HCV trajectory.

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Rice, C., Saeed, M. Treatment triumphs. Nature 510, 43–44 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/510043a

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