Article
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 inf...
Topics
- Cohort Studies
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis C Antibodies
- Hepatitis C Antigens
- Humans
- Netherlands
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Reproducibility of Results
- Sensitivity and Specificity
