Abstract
An automated hepatitis C virus (HCV) antigen (Ag) assay was evaluated with clinical samples. Determination of HCV Ag and RNA levels in 282 subjects using Abbott HCV Ag and Roche Cobas TaqMan assays revealed that these two tests were highly correlated (r = 0.9464). Thus, the HCV Ag assay could be an alternative test to quantitative reverse transcription-PCR.
Publication types
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Comparative Study
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Evaluation Study
MeSH terms
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Antigens, Viral / blood*
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Automation / methods*
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Hepacivirus / isolation & purification*
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Humans
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RNA, Viral / blood
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Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Statistics as Topic
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Viral Core Proteins / blood*
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Viral Load / methods*
Substances
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Antigens, Viral
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RNA, Viral
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Viral Core Proteins
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nucleocapsid protein, Hepatitis C virus