Hepatitis C Virus and eliminating post-transfusion hepatitis
✍ Scribed by Alter, Harvey J.; Houghton, Michael
- Book ID
- 109829209
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 330 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1078-8956
- DOI
- 10.1038/80394
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## Abstract The prevalence of hepatitis‐C virus (HCV) infection was investigated in a group of children with chronic post‐transfusion hepatitis using a first‐and second‐generation HCV‐antibody ELISA, 2 confirmatory tests (a second‐generation recombinant immunoblot assay and a line immunoas‐say) as
Although heterotypic superinfection and mixed infections of hepatitis C virus (HCV) may be possible for hepatitis flares in chronic hepatitis C, the possibility of homotypic HCV superinfection in HCV carriers with post-transfusion hepatitis has not been explored. Six HCV carriers with post-transfusi