Case Report: Effect of Bee Stings on the Viral Clearance in Chronic Hepatitis-C Virus
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Case Report: Effect of Bee Stings on the Viral Clearance in Chronic Hepatitis-C Virus, MOHAMED N. EL-BASSIONY and RASHA E. BADR
Abstract
A 47 year old male patient suffered from chronic hepatitis C virus (CHC) infection since 1999 came to Bee Venom Research Center (BVR) at El-Arish City in June 2006 asking to be one of volunteers in Bee Venom Therapy (BVT) courses. He was treated with traditional interferon (IFN) and ribavirin (RBV) for 12 months since May 2000 to May 2001. After completion of his treatment course, quantitative Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for Hepatitis C virus Ribonucleic acid (HCV-RNA) was done and the result was negative. In June, quantitative PCR for HCV-RNA was repeated and the result was positive. He was involved in BVT course for three months starting from July 2006 to the end of September 2006. At the end of BVT course quantitative PCR for HCV-RNA was done and the result was negative. Since September 2006 until now repeated quantitative PCR for HCV-RNA were negative.