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Antibody- and genome-based identification of recent HCV infection.
Antiviral therapy - 1 Jan 2012
Araujo Aufra C
Abstract excerpt
The diagnosis of recent HCV infection remains challenging due to the absence of serological markers specific to the early phase of infection. Clinical follow-up and seroconversion to anti-HCV immunoglobulin (Ig)G, detection of viral RNA and changes in levels of blood biomarkers associated with liver pathology provide circumstantial evidence of recent HCV infection. Studies based on anti-HCV IgG avidity,...
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