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Hepatitis C virus serotype-specific core and NS4 antibodies in injecting drug users participating in the Amsterdam cohort studies.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 1998
Beld M, Penning M, van Putten M, van den Hoek A, Lukashov V, McMorrow M, Goudsmit J
Abstract excerpt
In the present study, the RIBA HCV serotyping SIA was evaluated with a cohort of injecting drug users. Serotyping may be a rapid and cost-effective method of determining genotypes in cohort studies. In this study, hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody-positive sera from a cohort of 331 chronically infected injecting drug users, of which 167 were coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), were serotyped by the...
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