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Mutagenic Effects of Ribavirin on Hepatitis E Virus—Viral Extinction versus Selection of Fitness-Enhancing Mutations
Hepatitis E virus (HEV), an important agent of viral hepatitis worldwide, can cause severe courses of infection in pregnant women and immunosuppressed patients. To date, HEV infections can only be treated with ribavirin (RBV). Major drawbacks of this therapy are that RBV is not approved for administ...
Autores principales: | Todt, Daniel, Walter, Stephanie, Brown, Richard J. P., Steinmann, Eike |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086615/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27754363 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v8100283 |
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