Diagnosis of occult hepatitis C without the need for a liver biopsy

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1554-1559

  Castillo, Inmaculada ^a   Bartolomé, Javier ^a   Quiroga, Juan Antonio ^a   Barril, Guillermina ^a,b   Carreño, Vicente ^a  

^a Fundacion para el Estudio de Las Hepatitis Virales   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anti core HCV; HCV RNA; Occult HCV; PBMCs

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; ULTRACENTRIFUGE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADULT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 77956568560     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21866     Document Type: Article

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