| Literature DB >> 17021056 |
Juan A Quiroga1, Inmaculada Castillo, Margarita Pardo, Elena Rodríguez-Iñigo, Vicente Carreño.
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A combined hepatitis C virus (HCV) antigen-antibody assay was evaluated for 115 seronegative individuals with occult HCV infection. The assay was reactive in one patient and negative to weakly reactive in three others (all four gave indeterminate results by supplemental assay) but failed to detect HCV in the remaining patients. Despite increased sensitivity the combined assay does not improve serodiagnosis of occult HCV infection.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 17021056 PMCID: PMC1698377 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01440-06
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948