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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2008
Filed:
May. 28, 2003
Applicants:
Ian Parsons, Coppet, CH;
Theodor Wee Tit Gin, Singapore, SG;
Birgit Maschek, Windham, NH (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Laboratories Serono SA, Coinsins, Vaud, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/19 (2006.01); A61K 38/21 (2006.01); C07K 14/555 (2006.01); C07K 14/565 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to the use of recombinant IFN-beta for the production of a medicament for the treatment of HCV infection by subcutaneous administration to patients of Asian race, which failed to respond to a previous treatment with interferon-alpha, is herein reported. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, this treatment can be better and further focused to those patients which after at least 4 weeks of initial treatment with IFN-beta show HCV RNA clearance.