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Correlation between hepatitis C viral load and hepatitis C Core antigenaemia among Egyptians.
Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit - 14 Jun 2017
Kotb Dalia N, Esmail Mona A, Abdelwahab Sayed F, Abdel-Hamid Mohamed
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is widespread in Egypt. This study compared HCV RNA with HCVcAg for the detection and quantification of viraemia among a sample of Egyptians. Sera from 80 suspected HCVpositive individuals were tested simultaneously for HCV-RNA load using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and HCVcAg level using ELISA. Of the 80 samples, 25% were HCV-RNA-negative. HCVcAg was detected in...
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