The evaluation of Recombinant Immunoblot assay (RIBA) and HCV-RNA test results in patients with low titer Anti-HCV positivity

Objectives: Laboratory diagnosis of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is based on the detection of anti-HCV antibodies by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) or chemiluminescence immunoassay (CIA) techniques. However, a consensus related to the problem of low titer (Serum/Cut-off; S/C= 1.0) anti-HCV antibodie...

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Main Authors: Berrin Uzun, Hakan Er, Serdar Güngör, A. Gamze Şener, Selçuk Kaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Modestum Publishing LTD 2014-12-01
Series:Journal of Clinical and Experimental Investigations
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Online Access:http://www.jceionline.org/upload/sayi/25/JCEI-01021.pdf