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Detection of hepatitis C virus genomic sequences in the cerebrospinal fluid of HIV-infected patients.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Nov 1997
Morsica G, Bernardi M T, Novati R, Uberti Foppa C, Castagna A, Lazzarin A
Abstract excerpt
To assess the presence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the central nervous system (CNS), HCV-RNA was sought in paired serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples of 21 HIV/HCV-positive patients: HCV-RNA was detected in the serum of 19/21 patients (90.4%), and in the CSF of five of the 19 serum-positive patients. The presence of HCV-RNA was confirmed in follow-up CSF samples available for three of these five...
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