Heba Bassiony Atwa Mohamed <br/><br/>
Relation between human leukocyte antigen class II alleles (DQB1 and DRB1) and response to interferon therapy in HCV infected Egyptian patients /  
 العلاقة بين بدائل النوع الثانى لانتجينات كرات الدم البيضاء الادميةDQB1 و DRB1  والاستجابة للعلاج بالانترفيرون فى المرضى المصريين المصابين بالفيروس الكبدى سى 
Heba Bassiony Atwa Mohamed ; Supervised Mohamed Akmal Elghor 
 - Cairo :   Heba Bassiony Atwa Mohamed ,   2010 
 - 97P.:   charts ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Zoology 
<br/><br/> Human leukocyte antigens play an important in the outcome of HCV infection . We investigated whether HLA class II alleles influence the susceptibility to HCV infection or the response to interferon treatment in Egyptian patients . Sixty two patients with chronic HCV infection were treated with combined treatment of inferferon and ribavirin nineteen healthy controls were involved 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Hepatitis C virus (HCV)  Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)  Polymorphism