ENTA—I'm inferring that the HBV RNA destabilizer could aid the antiviral; thus increasing the net viral load decline. The destabilizer alone may create it's own viral load decline, but my sense is that like ribavirin, it weakens/disrupts the virus and will work synergistically with the antiviral.
You could be right. Ribavirin was an obligate component of early HCV regimens despite its being a weak nucleoside that generated only a ~1-log reduction in viral load on its own.
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