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Comparison of real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction with three other assays for quantitation of hepatitis C virus.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology - 1 Aug 2001
Enomoto M, Nishiguchi S, Shiomi S, Tanaka M, Fukuda K, Ueda T, Tamori A, Habu D, Takeda T, Yano Y, Otani S
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Evaluation of serum levels of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is important for predicting the response to interferon treatment and monitoring its therapeutic efficacy. The aim of this study was to evaluate real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as a method for the measurement of HCV-RNA. METHODS: The subjects were 50 patients with chronic hepatitis C: 36 with genotype 1b, eight with...
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