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Performance of HCV core antigen and PCR testing in a predominantly genotype 3 population.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jun 2024
Naveed Ammara, Khalid Abdullah, Janjua Naveed, Cloherty Gavin A, Akhter Saeed
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C core antigen (HCVcAg) is becoming increasingly recognized as an alternative to molecular testing for the confirmation of chronic hepatitis C. However, there are limited data on the performance of this assay in a genotype 3 (GT3) predominant country like Pakistan. We conducted a study to evaluate the diagnostic performance of HCVcAg against the HCV polymerase chain reaction (PCR) molecular test. HCV...
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