Evaluation of screening effectiveness of hepatitis B surface antigen and anti-HCV rapid test kits in Pakistan

OBJECTIVE: The current study was conducted to evaluate the performance and screening effectiveness of commercially available rapid screening kits in comparison with chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This single-center, cross-s...

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Main Authors: Usman Waheed, Yetmgeta Eyayou Abdella, Noor e Saba, Muhammad Arshad, Akhlaaq Wazeer, Ahmad Farooq, Javaid Usman, Abida Arshad, Hasan Abbas Zaheer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2019-10-01
Series:Journal of Laboratory Physicians
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/JLP.JLP_172_19