Measuring hepatitis C viremia in clinical samples: Can we trust the assays?
β Scribed by J Pawlotsky
- Book ID
- 102244048
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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β¦ Synopsis
HEPATOLOGY Concise Review onstrate HCV replication and to assess HCV clearance during
Measuring Hepatitis C Viremia and after therapy; 2) pretreatment HCV RNA thresholds predicting the various categories of response to antiviral treat-in Clinical Samples: Can We ments, 1,2 which can be used to tailor therapy to the level of HCV replication; and 3) RNA levels with prognostic value SENSITIVITY Abbreviations: HCV, hepatitis C virus; RT-PCR, reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; bDNA, branched DNA; CV, coefficient of variation. The performance of the bDNA assay version 2.0 and the From the Department of Bacteriology and Virology, Ho Λpital Henri Mondor, Uni-Monitor assay can be interpreted in different ways acversite Β΄Paris XII, Cre Β΄teil, France.
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