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Definition of false-positive reactions in screening for hepatitis C virus antibodies
M Schröter1, H H Feucht, P Schäfer
1Institut fur Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Immunologie, Universit äts-Krankenhaus Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany. mschroeter@uke.uni-hamburg.de
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|December 17, 1998
Abstract:
The rate of false-positive hepatitis C virus enzyme immunoassay results was determined to be at least 10% among 1,814 reactive serum samples based on (i) negative results in an independent confirmation assay, (ii) negative PCR results, and (iii) no patients developing clinical or biochemical signs of hepatitis during a 1-year follow-up.