| Literature DB >> 12409428 |
Peter A White1, Yong Pan, Anthony J Freeman, George Marinos, Rosemary A Ffrench, Andrew R Lloyd, William D Rawlinson.
Abstract
A highly sensitive, non-probe-based, real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR was developed for viral load measurements in both serum and liver samples from patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. With synthetic RNA, the linearity of the approach was conserved over a wide range of HCV copy numbers. There was a strong correlation between hepatic and serum viral load measurements (r = 0.689, P = 0.004, n = 15), indicating that the level of viremia reflected the amount of virus present in the liver.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12409428 PMCID: PMC139708 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.11.4346-4348.2002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948