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Entecavir Therapy Provides Long-Term Benefit for Chronic Hepatitis B
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Title Entecavir Therapy Provides Long-Term Benefit for Chronic Hepatitis B
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/566485?src=rss
Description An extension of an earlier study shows that entecavir continues to better suppress virus compared with lamivudine after 2 years in nucleoside-naive patients with chronic e antigen-positive hepatitis B, according to a study in the November issue of Gastroenterology. Reuters Health Information
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Date Nov 28, 2007
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