Twelve week post-treatment undetectable hepatitis C virus (HCV)-RNA by PCR assay predicts a sustained virological response to anti-HCV therapy independently from immunological status of the infected patients

MeSH terms

• Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use*
• Drug Monitoring / methods*
• Hepacivirus / isolation & purification*
• Hepatitis C / drug therapy*
• Hepatitis C / virology*
• Humans
• Interferons / therapeutic use
• RNA, Viral / blood
• Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods*
• Ribavirin / therapeutic use
• Time Factors
• Treatment Outcome
• Viral Load*