TY - BOOK AU - Marwa Mahmoud Zayed AU - Ahmed Nabil Lotfy Hassan , AU - Mohamed Mostafa Abdelgaffar , AU - Zakaria Abdellatif Salama , TI - New trends in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Marwa Mahmoud Zayed , KW - Chronic HCV KW - HCV treatment new trends KW - New trends in the treatment of chronic N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Tropical Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Hepatitis C virus ( HCV ) infects an estimated 170 million persons worldwide and thus represents a viral pandemic one that is five times as widespread as infection with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 ( HIV - 1 ) . There are considerable regional differeces the highest HCV prevalence in the world occurs in Egypt (20%) ER -