Hepatitis C virus core antigen assay: can we think beyond convention in resource limited settings?

ABSTRACT Hepatitis C virus infects over 15 million patients from India and 2.86 million from Brazil. Detection of anti-hepatitis C virus antibodies has limited sensitivity during acute phase: the pre-seroconversion window period. Hepatitis C virus-RNA detection techniques are used to overcome this s...

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Main Authors: Anita Chakravarti, Mayank S. Chauhan, Gaurav Dogra, Sayantan Banerjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702013000300010