By IDSE News Staff
The largest population study of hepatitis C (HCV) in Africa found three new strains of the virus circulating in the general population in sub-Saharan Africa (Hepatology 2018 Nov 2. [Epub ahead of print], doi: 10.1002/hep.30342).
The research from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research and collaborators suggested that certain antiviral drugs currently used in the West may not be as effective against the new strains, and