Prevalence, severity, and risk factors of liver disease in blood donors positive in a second-generation anti—hepatitis c virus screening test*1, *2

Prevalence, severity, and risk factors o

Prevalence, severity, and risk factors of liver disease in blood donors positive in a second-generation anti—hepatitis C virus screening test

✍ Lawrence Serfaty; Jean Baptiste Nousbaum; Marie Helene Elghouzzi; Phillipe Giral 📂 Article 📅 1995 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 634 KB

In a cohort of 483 blood donors positive for antibody to hepatitis C virus on second-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent, the confirmatory second-generation recombinant immunoblot assay (Ortho Diagnostic Systems) was positive in 172 cases (36%), indeterminate in 113 (23%), and negative in 198 (41