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A Protocol for Analyzing Hepatitis C Virus Replication
Published on: June 26, 2014
[Hepatitis C antibody in hematological patients who underwent multiple transfusions]
B V Lund1, N Korsgaard, N A Peterslund
1Arhus Amtssygehus, medicinsk haematologisk afdeling og patologisk institut, Skejby Sygehus.
Abstract:
The frequency of hepatitis C virus antibodies in serum as detected by the "Ortho Antibody Elisa Test System", was investigated in a consecutive series of multitransfused haematological patients who had received a total of 3,627 transfusions. Two out of 43 patients (4.6%; 95% confidence interval 0.6-15.8%) were found seropositive. Among Danish blood donors the frequency of seropositivity has been reported to 0.2-0.3%. The clinical significance of the seropositivity is underlined by the finding at autopsy of chronic active hepatitis in one of the two patients found anti-HCV positive.
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