Open AccessDifferential Specificity of Interferon-alpha Inducible Gene Expression in Association with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis C Virus Levels and Declines in vivo
Author(s) -
Antonios Katsounas,
Astrid C. Frank,
Richard A. Lempicki,
Michael A. Polis,
David M. Asmuth,
Shyam Kottilil
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of aids and clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2155-6113
DOI - 10.4172/2155-6113.1000410
Subject(s) - medicine , viremia , bdna test , hepatitis c virus , peripheral blood mononuclear cell , alpha interferon , viral load , immunology , virology , virus , in vivo , hepatitis c , interferon , biology , in vitro , biochemistry , microbiology and biotechnology
This study was aimed to correlate in vivo interferon (IFN) inducible gene (IFIG) expression and IFIG induction with viral-load (VL) and VL-kinetics of Human-Immunodeficiency-Virus (HIV) or Hepatitis-C-Virus (HCV) in HIV-positive patients treated with pegylated IFN-alpha-2a (PegIFNα).