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Evaluation of a new serotyping assay for detection of anti-hepatitis C virus type-specific antibodies in serum samples.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2003
Gault Elyanne, Soussan Patrick, Morice Yoann, Sanders Lara, Berrada Assia, Rogers Brian, Dený Paul
Abstract excerpt
The performance of a new version (HC03) of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) serotyping 1-6 assay (Abbott Murex Laboratories), a specific test for serological determination of HCV types, was evaluated using a selected panel of 180 HCV RNA-positive sera. HC03 was more sensitive than the current HC02 version, typing 53 (37.6%) of 141 samples which were not typable with HC02. Furthermore, the HC03 specificity was 94.1% as...
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