Case report: Cure of chronic infection with hepatitis C virus after 6 weeks of peg‐interferon and ribavirin in a patient co‐infected with HIV | Zendy

Rachline Anne | Zendy; Palmer Pierre | Zendy; Simon François | Zendy; Molina JeanMichel | Zendy

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Case report: Cure of chronic infection with hepatitis C virus after 6 weeks of peg‐interferon and ribavirin in a patient co‐infected with HIV

Author(s) -

Rachline Anne,

Palmer Pierre,

Simon François,

Molina JeanMichel

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of medical virology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782

H-Index - 121

eISSN - 1096-9071

pISSN - 0146-6615

DOI - 10.1002/jmv.21781

Subject(s) - ribavirin , medicine , virology , hepatitis c virus , virus , adverse effect , chronic hepatitis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , viral disease , interferon , pegylated interferon , alpha interferon , immunology

The recommended treatment duration of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is 48 weeks. This report describes a patient co‐infected with HCV genotype 2 and HIV who discontinued HCV therapy after 6 weeks because of adverse events and had a sustained virologic response. J. Med. Virol. 82:1150–1151, 2010. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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