Merck’s Investigational Hepatitis C Treatment Regimen MK-5172/MK-8742 Shows Robust Anti-HCV Activity in HIV/HCV Co-Infected Patients with HCV Genotype 1 Infection
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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada,
today announced new data from HIV/HCV co-infected patients in the
ongoing C-WORTHY Study, a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the efficacy
and safety of Merck's all-oral, once-daily regimen combining MK-5172, an
investigational hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3/4A protease inhibitor, and
MK-8742, an investigational HCV NS5A replication complex inhibitor.
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