Claudin-6 and Occludin Natural Variants Found in a Patient Highly Exposed but Not Infected with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Do Not Confer HCV Resistance In Vitro.

The clinical course of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection is highly variable between infected individual hosts: up to 80% of acutely HCV infected patients develop a chronic infection while 20% clear infection spontaneously. Spontaneous clearance of HCV infection can be predicted by several factors, i...

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Main Authors: Lucie Fénéant, Jade Ghosn, Baptiste Fouquet, François Helle, Sandrine Belouzard, Thibaut Vausselin, Karin Séron, Jean-François Delfraissy, Jean Dubuisson, Micheline Misrahi, Laurence Cocquerel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4643007?pdf=render