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Treatment of Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection With Pegylated Interferon in Injection Drug Users

NCT00194480

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

Injection drug use accounts for transmission of a high proportion of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infections. The purpose of this trial is to investigate the effectiveness of pegylated interferon in treating injection drug users (IDUs) with acute HCV.

Timeline

Start
2003-04
Primary completion
2006-12
Completion
2007-06

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Peginterferon alfa-2a Protein / enzyme biologic Other