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A Protocol for Analyzing Hepatitis C Virus Replication
Published on: June 26, 2014
Hepatitis C virus infection in haemodialysis patients
S D Roger1, E Crewe, A Cunningham
1Renal Unit, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Abstract:
Antibody to hepatitis C has been variously detected in 1-20% of haemodialysis patients in recent studies from overseas. To determine the frequency of antibodies to the C100-3 protein of the hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) a cross-sectional study was performed in 60 patients on maintenance haemodialysis in Western Sydney. Six patients (10%) were anti-HCV seropositive. Four of the six anti-HCV positive patients were also hepatitis B core antibody positive, compared with nine of 54 anti-HCV negative patients (p less than 0.05). All anti-HCV positive patients had received multiple blood transfusions. Serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) was not useful as a screening test. Recent evidence suggests that anti-HCV seropositivity underestimates infectivity.
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