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Publications

2026

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March
Safety and efficacy of REP 2139-Mg in HDV patients with advanced liver disease in an international compassionate access program
 

 Stern C, et al.

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May
Modeling predicts direct-acting antiviral therapy for 5-weeks may cure recent or chronic hepatitis C infection among people with undetectable viral RNA by day 7

Goyal A, et al.

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May
Early Hepatitis B and Delta virus kinetics in patients undergoing liver transplantation

 

Battistella S, et al. 

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May
Modeling Highlights the Challenge of Achieving and Maintaining HCV Micro-Elimination Among People Who Inject Drugs 

 

Tatara E, et al.

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May
Modeling in vitro cell-to-cell spread of hepatitis C viral infection using an agent-based approach

 

Shi Z, et al.

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May
Modeling hepatitis D virus kinetics during bulevirtide monotherapy: challenges and solutions

 
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May
Rat hepatitis E virus infection has multiphasic viral replication kinetics in vivo


 

Shi Z, et al.

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July
Mathematical Modeling of HDV RNA, HBsAg, and ALT Kinetics in Patients with Compensated Cirrhosis: Insights from 96 Weeks of Bulevirtide Monotherapy
 

Mhlanga A., et al.

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July
Mathematical Modeling of HDV RNA, HBV DNA, and HBsAg Dynamics during Lonafarnib-Based Therapy: Insights from the LOWR HDV-1 Study
 
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July
Reply to Akiyama and Berk: Response-Guided HCV Therapy and the Imperative to Treat in Carceral Settings

2025

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January 2025

HBV serum RNA kinetics during nucleic acid polymers based therapy predict functional cure
 
Hershkovich, L., et al.
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January 2025

Modeling of randomized hepatitis C vaccine trials: bridging the gap between controlled human infection models and real-word testing
 
Mackesy-Amiti, M., et al. 
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February 2025

Modeling challenges of hepatitis D virus kinetics during bulevirtide-based therapy

 
Mhlanga A., et al.
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April 2025

Modelling of hepatitis B virus kinetics and accumulation of cccDNA in primary human hepatocytes
 
Shekhtman L., et al.
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April 2025

Functional cure for hepatitis B virus: challenges and achievements 

 
Shechter O., et al.
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May 2025

Challenges in coverage of future hepatitis C vaccines: Review and potential solutions

 
Ghandi K., et al. 
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May 2025

In-host modeling challenges using population approach methods  


 
Mhlanga A., et al.
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July 2025

Hepatitis D Virus Infection: Pathophysiology, Epidemiology and Treatment. Report From the Third Delta Cure Meeting 2024

 
Degasperi, E., et al. 
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July 2025

Modeling of hepatitis B virus infection spread in primary human hepatocytes


 
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July 2025

Modeling highlights the challenge of maintaining HCV micro-elimination among people who inject drugs

 
Tatara E, et al. 
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August 2025

The bioinformatics of the finding that the hepatitis delta virus RNA editing mechanism by a conformational switch exists in genotype 7 in addition to genotype 3
 
Zakh et al. 

2024

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December 2024

Theoretical modeling of hepatitis C acute infection in liver-humanized mice support pre-clinical assessment of candidate viruses for controlled-human-infection studies

Shi Z, et al. 

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September 2024

Commentary on: Bulevirtide Combined with Pegylated Interferon for Chronic Hepatitis D

 

Dahari, H., Cotler, SJ.

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August  2024

Interferon alpha induces a stronger antiviral effect than interferon lambda in HBV/HDV infected humanized mice
 

Duehren, S., et al.

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July 2024

Spatial inequities in access to medications for treatment of opioid use disorder highlight scarcity of methadone providers under counterfactual scenarios

 

Tatara, E., et al.

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April  2024

Mathematical Models of Early Hepatitis B Virus Dynamics in Humanized Mice



 

Ciupe, S., et al.

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March 2024

Reducing Sample Size While Improving Equity in Vaccine Clinical Trials: A Machine Learning-Based Recruitment Methodology with Application to Improving Trials of Hepatitis C Virus Vaccines in People Who Inject Drugs

Chiu, R., et al.

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February 2024

Advances and Challenges in Managing Hepatitis D Virus: Evolving Strategies
 

Gopalakrishna, H., et al.

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February 2024

Modelling HDV kinetics under entry-inhibitor Bulevirtide suggests the existence of two HDV-infected cell populations

Shekhtman, L., et al.

2023

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October 2023

Hepatitis D Virus and HBsAg Dynamics in the era of new Antiviral Treatments



 

Shekhtman, L., et al.

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July 2023

Modeling suggests that virion production cycles within individual cells is key to understanding acute hepatitis B virus infection kinetics

 

Hailegiorgis, A., et al.

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July 2023

Herpes Simplex Virus, Human Papillomavirus, and Cervical Cancer: Overview, Relationship, and Treatment Implications

 
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June 2023

Hepatitis delta virus RNA decline post inoculation in human NTCP transgenic mice is biphasic


 
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June 2023

Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis D with Peginterferon Lambda - The Phase 2 LIMT-1 Clinical Trial


 

Etzion O., et al.

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April 2023

Rapid monophasic hepatitis B surface antigen decline during nucleic-acid polymers-based therapy predicts functional cure

 
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January 2023

Modeling-Based Response-Guided Hepatitis C Treatment during Pregnancy and Postpartum

 

2022

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December 2022

Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D Viruses:
A Comprehensive Update with an Immunological Focus


 

Sausen D., et al.

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November 2022

Epstein–Barr Virus (EBV) Epithelial Associated Malignancies: Exploring
Pathologies and Current Treatments


 

Shechter O., et al.

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October 2022

Modeling the Interplay between HDV and HBV in Chronic HDV/HBV Patients


 
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June 2022

Advances in Parameter Estimation and Learning from Data for Mathematical Models of Hepatitis C Viral Kinetics


 
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March 2022

Modeling-based response-guided DAA therapy for chronic hepatitis C to identify individuals for shortening treatment duration

 

Goyal A., et al.

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March 2022

Modeling hepatitis C micro-elimination among people who inject drugs with direct-acting antivirals in metropolitan Chicago


 
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January 2022

Mathematical modeling suggests that entry-inhibitor Bulevirtide may interfere with hepatitis D virus clearance from circulation


 
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January 2022

Machine learning for mathematical models of HCV kinetics during antiviral therapy




 
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January 2022

A meta-analysis of 20 years of data on people who inject drugs in metropolitan Chicago to inform computational modeling



 

2021

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December 2021

A Mathematical Model for early HBV and -HDV Kinetics during Anti-HDV Treatment
 

Zakh R., et al.

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November 2021

Modeling hepatitis C virus kinetics during liver transplantation reveals the role of the liver in virus clearance

Shekhtman L., et al.

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September 2021

Ginkgolic acid inhibits Coronavirus strain 229E infection of human epithelial lung cells
 

Bhutta M. S., et al

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September 2021

Stress-Induced Epstein-Barr Virus Reactivation
 

Sausen D. G., et al

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September 2021

Letter to the Editor: Examining HBV RNA kinetics during NA treatment - are NA multifunctional antiviral agents?

Dahari H., et al

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August 2021

A Mathematical Analysis of HDV Genotypes: From Molecules to Cells
 

Zakh R., et al.

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July 2021

HCV Spread Kinetics Reveal Varying Contributions of Transmission Modes to Infection Dynamics

 

Durso-Cain, K., et al.

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April 2021

Understanding hepatitis B virus dynamics and the antiviral effect of interferon-a treatment in humanized chimeric mice

 

Reinharz V., et al.

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January 2021

Early HBV RNA kinetics under NA treatment may reveal new insights into HBV RNA dynamics and NA mode of action-more detailed kinetic studies are needed
 

Dahari H., et al.

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January 2021

Understanding the antiviral effects of RNAi-based therapy on chronic hepatitis B infection
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Kadelka S., et al.

2020

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October 

Response guided therapy for reducing duration of direct acting antivirals in chronic hepatitis C infected patients: a Pilot study

 

Etzion O., et al.

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August

Efficient Methods for Parameter Estimation of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equation Models of Viral Hepatitis Kinetics

 

Churkin A., et al.

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July

HCVMultiscaleFit: A Simulator for Parameter Estimation in Multiscale Models of Hepatitis C Virus Dynamics

 

Churkin A., et al.

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June

Modeling based response guided therapy in subjects with recent hepatitis C infection


 

Gorstein E., et al.

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May

Evaluation of short-course direct-acting antivirals and ezetimibe to prevent HCV infection in recipients of organs from HCV-infected donors: A single-centre, open-label study

Feld J.J., et al.

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April

Modelling hepatitis D virus RNA and HBsAg dynamics during nucleic acid polymer monotherapy suggest rapid turnover of HBsAg
 

Shekhtman L, et al.

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April

Modeling-based response-guided therapy for chronic hepatitis C under glecaprevir/pibrentasvir may identify patients for ultra-short treatment duration
 

Dasgupta S, et al.

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April

Sustained Virological Response Following an 11 Day Course of Direct Acting Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C Infection

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Yardeni D, et al.

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January

Modeling Challenges of Ebola Virus -Host Dynamics during Infection and Treatment​


 

Chertow D.S., et al.

2019

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January

Modeling suggests that microliter volumes of contaminated blood caused an outbreak of hepatitis C during computerized tomography

 

Shteyer E, et al.

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March

A randomized, proof-of-concept clinical trial on repurposing chlorcyclizine for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C


 

Koh C, et al.

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March

Early Multiphasic HBV Infection Initiation Kinetics Is Not Clone-Specific and Is Not Affected by Hepatitis D Virus (HDV) Infection

 

Tsuge M, et al.

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April

Modeling indicates efficient vaccine-based interventions for the elimination of hepatitis C virus among persons who inject drugs in metropolitan Chicago

 

Echevarria D, et al.

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May

Early HCV viral kinetics under DAAs may optimize duration of therapy in patients with compensated cirrhosis


 

Gambato M, et al.

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June

Multi-objective model exploration of hepatitis C elimination in an agent-based model of people who inject drugs


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Tatara E, et al.

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July

A Parameter Estimation Method for Multiscale Models of Hepatitis C Virus Dynamics


 

Reinharz V, et al.

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July

Plasma hepatitis E virus kinetics in solid organ transplant patients receiving ribavirin


 

Lhomme S, et al.

2018

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August

Acute hepatitis B virus infection in humanized chimeric mice has multiphasic viral kinetics

 

Ishida Y, et al.

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July

Modeling of patient virus titers suggests that availability of a vaccine could reduce hepatitis C virus transmission among injecting drug users
 

Major M, et al.

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June

Numerical schemes for solving and optimizing multiscale models with age of hepatitis C virus dynamics

 

Reinharz V, et al.

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April

Accounting for Space--Quantification of Cell-to-Cell Transmission Kinetics Using Virus Dynamics Models

 

Kumberger P, et al.

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February 

How to eliminate HCV in people who inject drugs in the USA


 

Dahari H, et al.

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February

High-Risk Geographic Mobility Patterns among Young Urban and Suburban Persons who Inject Drugs and their Injection Networks Members
 

Boodram B, et al.

2017

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December

HCV kinetic and modeling analyses project shorter durations to cure under combined therapy with daclatasvir and asunaprevir in chronic HCV-infected patients

 

Canini L et al.

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October

A Robust and Efficient Numerical Method for RNA-Mediated Viral Dynamics



 

Reinharz V, et al.

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August

Modeling HCV cure after an ultra-short duration of therapy with direct acting agents



 

Goyal A, et al.

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June

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics modeling of lonafarnib in patients with chronic hepatitis delta virus infection



 

Canini L, et al.

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May

End of treatment RNA-positive/sustained viral response in an individual with acute HCV infection treated with direct-acting antivirals


 

Shtyer E, et al.

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January

Prevalence of End of Treatment RNA-Positivity/Sustained Viral Response in HCV Patients Treated with Sofosbuvir Combination Therapies


 

Malespin M, et al.

2016

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June

HCV Kinetic and modeling analyses indicate similar time to cure among sofosbuvir combination regimens with daclatasvir, simeprevir or ledipasvir
 

Dahari H, et al.

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July

Hepatitis C virus cure after direct acting antiviral-related drug-induced liver injury: Case report

 

Hasin Y, et al.

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September

HCV dynamics and cellular gene expression in uPA-SCID chimeric mice with humanized livers during intravenous silibinin monotherapy

 

DebRoy S, et al.

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September

Resurrection of response-guided therapy for sofosbuvir combination therapies
 

Dahari H, et al.

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September

Cure prevents more than HCV transmission

 

Dahari H, et al

2015

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October

Oral Prenylation Inhibition with Lonafarnib in Chronic Hepatitis D Infection: a randomized, double-blinded, placebo controlled phase 2a trial
 

Koh C, et al.

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September

Agent-based model forecasts aging of the population of people who inject drugs in metropolitan Chicago and changing prevalence of hepatitis C infections
 

Gutfraind A, et al.

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August

Mathematical modeling of hepatitis C prevalence reduction with antiviral treatment scale-up in persons who inject drugs in metropolitan Chicago
 

Echevarria D, et al.

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July

Quantification of HCV cell-to-cell spread using a stochastic modeling approach


 

Graw F, et al.

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June

Effect of interferon-alfa therapy on hepatitis D virus


 

Guedj J, et al.

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February

Sustained virological response with intravenous silibinin: individualized IFN-free therapy via real-time modeling of HCV kinetics
 

Dahari H, et al.

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January

Severity of liver disease affects HCV kinetics in patients treated with intravenous silibinin monotherapy
 

Canini L, et al.

2014

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January

Treatment of hepatitis C with an interferon-based lead-in phase: A perspective from mathematical modeling

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Rong L, et al.

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February

Effect of Ribavirin on Viral Kinetics and Liver Gene Expression in Chronic Hepatitis C

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Rotman Y, et al.

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June

Individualized treatment for patients with low HCV load (genotype 1): A viral kinetic approach.

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Dahari H, et al.

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December

Understanding early serum hepatitis D virus and HBsAg kinetics during pegylated interferon-alfa therapy via mathematical modeling

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Guedj J, et al.

2013

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March

Modeling shows that the NS5A inhibitor daclatasvir has two modes of action and yields a new estimate of the hepatitis C virus half-life

 

Guedj J, Dahari H. et al. 

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March

Multiscale modeling approach predicts that the protease inhibitor danoprevir blocks several distinct stages of the HCV replication in vivo.
 

Rong L, et al. 

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April

Modeling the acute and chronic phases of Theiler murine encephalomyelitis virus infection

 

Zhang J, et al. 

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April

Understanding triphasic HCV decline during treatment in the era of IL28B polymorphisms and direct acting antiviral agents via mathematical modeling
 

Dahari H. et al. 

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July

The HCV NS5A inhibitor daclatasvir has dual mode of action and reveals a shorter HCV half-life estimate. 

 

Guedj J, et al.

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September

Silymarin for HCV infection.



 

Polyak SJ, et al.

2012

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January

Understanding silibinin's modes of action against HCV using viral kinetic modeling

 

Guedj J, Dahari H, et al.

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February 

Hepatitis C viral kinetics with the nucleoside polymerase inhibitor mericitabine (RG7128)

 

Guedj J, et al. 

2011

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January

Hepatocyte proliferation and hepatitis C virus (HCV) kinetics. 
 

Dahari H, et al.

2010

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March

Thiazole antibiotics against breast cancer. 

 

 Halasi M, et al.

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May

Rapid emergence of hepatitis C virus protease inhibitor resistance.
 

Rong L, et al. 

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May

Pharmacodynamics of PEG-IFN alpha-2a in HIV/HCV co-infected patients: Implications for treatment outcomes.

Dahari H, et al.

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August

The rate of hepatitis C virus infection initiation in vitro is directly related to particle density

Sabahi A, et al. 

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August

A Perspective on Modeling Hepatitis C Virus Infection. 
 

Guedj J, et al.

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September

Quantitative evaluation of HCV vaccine success: a meta-analysis.
 

Dahari H, et al.

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September

Novel mechanism of antibodies to hepatitis B virus in blocking viral particle release from cells.
 

Neumann AU, et al.

2009

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January

Modeling complex decay profiles of hepatitis B virus during antiviral therapy.
 

Dahari H, et al.

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January

Analysis of hepatitis C virus infection models with hepatocyte homeostasis. 
 

Reluga T​, et al.

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January

A mathematical model of hepatitis C virus dynamics in patients with high baseline viral loads or advanced liver disease. 

Dahari H, et al.

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March

Modeling HCV kinetics: The relationship between the infected cell loss rate and the final slope of viral decay.

Dahari H, et al.

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April

Hepatitis B virus clearance rate estimates.

 

Dahari H, et al.

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April

 Modeling subgenomic HCV RNA kinetics during interferon-a treatment.
 

Dahari H, et al.

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August

Mathematical modeling of viral kinetics under immune control during primary HIV-1 infection.

Burg D, et al. 

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Mathematical modeling of HCV infection and treatment.  HCV infection.
 

Dahari H, et al.

2008

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Hepatitis C viral kinetics in special populations

Dahari H, et al.

2007

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January

Early ribavirin pharmacokinetics, HCV RNA and alanine aminotransferase kinetics in HIV/HCV co-infected patients during treatment with pegylated Interferon and ribavirin.

Dahari H, et al 

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June

Hepatitis C virus RNA kinetics: Drug efficacy and the rate of HCV-infected cells loss.


 

Dahari H, Perelson AS, et al.

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July

Triphasic decline of HCV RNA during antiviral therapy. 


 

Dahari H, et al 

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July

Modeling HCV Dynamics: Liver regeneration and critical drug efficacy.
 

Dahari H, et al 

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October

Mathematical modeling of subgenomic hepatitis C viral replication in Huh-7 cells.
 

Dahari H, et al 

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December

Hepatitis C virus kinetics in chimeric mice during antiviral therapy.
 

Dahari H, Perelson AS, et al.

2006

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October

The extrahepatic contribution to HCV plasma viremia.

Dahari H, et al.

2005

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Mathematical Modeling of Primary Hepatitis C Infection: Non-cytolytic clearance and early blockage of virion production.

Dahari H, et al.

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Second Hepatitis C Compartment Indicated by Viral Dynamics during Liver Transplantation.

Dahari H, et al.

2004

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March

Antiviral Action of Ribavirin in Chronic Hepatitis C. 
 

Pawlotsky JM, et al.

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June

Hepatitis C Virus Kinetics and Host Responses Associated with Disease and Outcome of Infection.

Major ME, et al.

2002

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July

Clinical utility of total HCV core antigen quantification: a new indirect marker of HCV replication. 

Bouvier-Alias M, et al.

2000

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July

Differences in viral dynamics between genotypes 1 and 2 of hepatitis C virus.

Neumann AU, et al.

1998

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October

Hepatitis C viral dynamics in vivo and the antiviral efficacy of interferon-alpha therapy.

Neumann AU, et al.

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