Symptomatic Acute Hepatitis C in Egypt: Diagnosis, Spontaneous Viral Clearance, and Delayed Treatment with 12 Weeks of Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2a

• Noha Sharaf Eldin,

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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• Soheir Ismail,

  Affiliation Hepatology, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt

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• Hala Mansour,

  Affiliation Pharmacy, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt

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• Claire Rekacewicz,

  Affiliation Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Moustafa El-Houssinie,

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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• Sherif El-Kafrawy,

  Affiliation PCR Unit, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt

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• Saeed El Aidi,

  Affiliation Imbaba Fever Hospital, Cairo, Egypt

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• Mohamed Abdel-Hamid,

  Affiliation Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt

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• Gamal Esmat,

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

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• Stanislas Pol,

  Affiliation Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Cochin, Unité d'Hépatologie, Paris, France

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• Arnaud Fontanet ,

  * E-mail: fontanet@pasteur.fr

  Affiliation Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Mostafa K. Mohamed

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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