Article
Application of six hepatitis C virus genotyping systems to sera from chronic hepatitis C patients in the United States.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Feb 1995
Lau J Y, Mizokami M, Kolberg J A, Davis G L, Prescott L E, Ohno T, Perrillo R P, Lindsay K L, Gish R G, Qian K P
Abstract excerpt
Serum samples from 139 US patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were studied using six different genotyping systems, including both molecular and serologic methods, to determine the applicability of these approaches and the prevalence of various HCV subtypes. The concordance of...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Alanine Transaminase
- Antibodies, Viral
- California
- Chronic Disease
- Female
- Florida
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Humans
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Interferon-alpha
- Male
- Middle Aged