Bridge, Simon H.
Pagano, Sabrina
Jones, Meleri
Foster, Graham R.
Neely, Dermot
Vuilleumier, Nicolas
Bassendine, Margaret F.
Article History
Received: 22 September 2017
Accepted: 8 January 2018
First Online: 8 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Ethical approval was obtained from City Road and Hampstead (formerly Moorfields and Whittington) Research Ethics Committee for serial blood sampling of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection undergoing antiviral therapy.
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients.
: SHB received financial support from an Anniversary Research Fellowship from Northumbria University. GRF received speaker and consultancy fees from Abbvie, Gilead, BMS (Bristol Myers Squibb), Janssen, Tekmira, Merck and Alcura.
: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.