Renal involvement in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection
β Scribed by Marie Philipneri; Bahar Bastani
- Book ID
- 107540348
- Publisher
- Current Science Inc.
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 339 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1540-3416
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Sera from 103 patients were tested for hepatitis C virus RNA by nested polymerase chain reaction assay. Using primers from the highly conserved 5'-untranslated region, we detected hepatitis C virus RNA in 67 (88.2%) of 76 patients positive for antibody to hepatitis C virus by both second-generation