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Z Gastroenterol 2010; 48(2): 289-351
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1110008
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Update der S 3-Leitlinie Prophylaxe, Diagnostik und Therapie der Hepatitis-C-Virus(HCV)-Infektion, AWMF-Register-Nr.: 021 / 012

Prophylaxis, Diagnosis and Therapy of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection: The German Guidelines on the Management of HCV InfectionC. Sarrazin1 [*] , T. Berg2 [*] , R. S. Ross3 , P. Schirmacher4 , H. Wedemeyer5 , U. Neumann6 , H. H. J. Schmidt7 , U. Spengler8 , S. Wirth9 , H. H. Kessler10 , M. Peck-Radosavljevic11 , P. Ferenci11 , W. Vogel12 , D. Moradpour13 , M. Heim14 , M. Cornberg5 , U. Protzer15 , M. P. Manns5 , W. E. Fleig16 , M. M. Dollinger17 [*] , S. Zeuzem1 [*]
  • 1Medizinische Klinik I, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
  • 2Sektion Hepatologie, Klinik und Poliklinik für Gastroenterologie & Rheumatologie, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig
  • 3Institut für Virologie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Universität Duisburg-Essen
  • 4Pathologisches Institut, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
  • 5Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Endokrinologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
  • 6Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Transplantationschirurgie, Charité Campus Virchow Berlin
  • 7Transplantationshepatologie, Universitätsklinikum Münster
  • 8Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Universitätsklinikum Bonn
  • 9Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, HELIOS Klinikum Wuppertal, Universität Witten/Herdecke
  • 10Zentrum für angewandte Biomedizin, Medizinische Universität Graz
  • 11Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Medizinische Universität Wien
  • 12Klinik für Innere Medizin II, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck
  • 13Service de Gastroénterologie et Hépatologie, CHUV Lausanne
  • 14Abteilung für Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie, Universitätsspital Basel
  • 15Institut für Virologie, Technische Universität München/Helmholtz Zentrum München
  • 16Universitätsklinikum Leipzig
  • 17Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
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