Authors: Marcos Amaku Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho Eleazar Chaib Eduardo Massad
Publish Date: 2012/11/29
Volume: 75, Issue: 1, Pages: 82-93
Abstract
We address the observation that in some cases patients infected with the hepatitis C virus HCV are cleared of HCV when superinfected with the hepatitis A virus HAV We hypothesise that this phenomenon can be explained by the competitive exclusion principle including the action of the immune system and show that the inclusion of the immune system explains both the elimination of one virus and the coexistence of both infections for a certain range of parameters We discuss the potential clinical implications of our findings
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