Hepatitis C virus RNA detection in different semen fractions of HCV/HIV-1 co-infected men by nested PCR

Intermittent detection of hepatitis C vi

Intermittent detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in semen from men with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and HCV

✍ Christophe Pasquier; Louis Bujan; Myriam Daudin; Laurence Righi; Laetitia Berges 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 70 KB

## Abstract HCV is usually transmitted via the blood, but HCV RNA has been detected recently in seminal fluid. This study was done to study HCV seminal shedding and factors that could influence the presence of HCV in the seminal fluid of men coinfected with HCV and HIV‐1. HCV and HIV‐1 genomes were