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Influence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes on HCV recombinant immunoblot assay patterns
J M Pawlotsky1, F Roudot-Thoraval, C Pellet
1Department of Bacteriology and Virology, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Université Paris XII, Créteil, France.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|May 1, 1995
Abstract:
Ninety-six patients with chronic hepatitis C were studied. A second-generation recombinant immunoblot assay detected anti-NS4 antibodies significantly more often in patients infected by hepatitis C virus genotype 1 than in patients infected by other types. By a third-generation recombinant immunoblot assay, the prevalences of the four antibodies measured did not differ according to the hepatitis C virus genotype.
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