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Quantitative analysis of hepatitis C virus activity in vivo in different groups of untreated patients.
Archives of virology - 1 Jan 1997
Manzin A, Solforosi L, Giostra F, Bianchi F B, Bruno S, Rossi S, Gabrielli A, Candela M, Petrelli E, Clementi M
Abstract excerpt
Highly sensitive competitive PCR (cPCR) and competitive reverse transcription PCR (cRT-PCR) methodologies were recently developed and applied for quantifying viral DNA and RNA species (including HCV RNA) present in clinical samples at low concentration. In this study, we used cRT-PCR to compare the viral load of 118 untreated patients with HCV infection and different clinical conditions (80 patients with chronic...
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