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Title: Eight Weeks of Zepatier Cures Recent Hep C Infections at High Rate
Post by: Hep Editors on April 04, 2018, 10:25:22 am
Individuals recently infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), including those coinfected with HIV, stand an excellent chance of a cure from eight weeks of treatment with Merck’s Zepatier (grazoprevir/elbasvir).

Anne Boerekamps, MD, an infectious disease specialist at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, presented findings from a prospective single-arm, open-label multicenter Phase IIb Dutch Acute HCV trial of eight weeks of Zepatier at the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston.

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https://www.hepmag.com/article/eight-weeks-zepatier-cures-recent-hep-c-infections-high-rate