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dewophile

11/13/09 4:50 PM

#86237 RE: DewDiligence #86235

HCV

"Geno-2/3 patients have been harder to cure than geno-1/4 patients for any drug regimen I know of that’s been tried against all of the HCV genotypes."

i think you have that backwards - gen2/3 do better than 1/4, and typically require shorter treatment periods (soc is 24 weeks for gen2/3, and may be even shorter than that depending on viral kinetics)
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dewophile

11/13/09 4:52 PM

#86238 RE: DewDiligence #86235

idix

"only the nukes offer pan-genotypic coverage"

do you recall if idix's non-nuc and/or PIs also have broader coverage? for some reason i recall they do
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