Hepatitis C virus clearance and gender: Authors’ responseBakr, ImanMohamed, Mostafa KFontanet, ArnaudAuthor information1Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt2Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, FranceCorrespondence to: Dr A Fontanet Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Intitut Pasteur, 25 rue de Docteur Roux, Paris 75015, France; [email protected]Competing interests: None.Gut 56(6):p 884, June 2007.Copyright © 2007 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Society of Gastroenterology