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27. How has the HBV treatment landscape changed?

We met a while back and looked at the treatment landscape and looked at the historical development: interferon 1992, lamivudine 1998, adefovir 2002, diagnostic progress- we only had serology back in the old days. Then we got a DNA assay although it wasn’t so accurate and now we have PCR. Therefore we have to rethink what we do.

26. What is the combined response of treatment between interferon and pegylated interferon? 28. Who participated in writing the HBV Treatment Algorithm?