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Venegas Santos, Mauricio; Brahm Barril, Javier; Villanueva Arancibia, Rodrigo (2012)Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an important global health problem with an estimated prevalence of more than 170 million infected individuals worldwide. Currently, the standard antiviral therapy, based on pegylated interferon ...
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Venegas Santos, Mauricio; Villanueva Arancibia, Rodrigo; González Lagos, Katherine; Brahm Barril, Javier (2011)AIM: To analyze the association of three IL28B single nucleotide polymorphisms with response to therapy in Chilean patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). METHODS: We studied two groups of patients with chronic ...
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Venegas Santos, Mauricio; Alvarado Mora, Mónica V.; Villanueva Arancibia, Rodrigo; Rebello Pinho, Joao R.; Carrilho, Flair J.; Locarnini, Stephen; Yuen, Lilly; Brahm Barril, Javier (WILEY-LISS, INC., 2011)Molecular epidemiological data concerning the hepatitis B virus (HBV) in Chile are not known completely. Since the HBV genotype F is the most prevalent in the country, the goal of this study was to obtain full HBV ...
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Venegas Santos, Mauricio; Muñoz Espinoza, Gabriela; Hurtado Heim, Carmen; Alvarez, Luis; Velasco Rayo, Marta; Villanueva Arancibia, Rodrigo; Brahm Barril, Javier (SPRINGER WIEN, 2008-11)The eight genotypes (designated A–H) of hepatitis B virus (HBV) display distinctive geographical distribution worldwide, with genotypes A, D and F frequently detected in South America. To determine the prevalence of ...
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Venegas Santos, Mauricio; Villanueva Arancibia, Rodrigo; Brahm Barril, Javier (Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2010)The Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the prototype member of the Hepadnaviridae family, which can cause acute or chronic hepatic illness. The virus has a partially double-stranded DNA genome of 3.2 kb. Molecular variations and ...
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Hernández, Sergio; Venegas Santos, Mauricio; Brahm Barril, Javier; Villanueva Arancibia, Rodrigo (2012)Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) encodes an oncogenic factor, HBx, which is a multifunctional protein that can induce dysfunctional regulation of signaling pathways, transcription, and cell cycle progression, among ...