Occult Hepatitis C Virus Infection Revisited with Ultrasensitive Real-Time PCR Assay
- 1 June 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 46 (6), 2106-2108
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00345-08
Abstract
Occult hepatitis C infection is regarded as a new entity that should be considered when diagnosing patients with a liver disease of unknown origin. Using an ultrasensitive real-time PCR assay, we demonstrated that occult hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection cannot be found in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with cryptogenic liver diseases, HCV-associated systemic vasculitis, or connective tissue diseases. The significance of such occult infection must be elucidated.Keywords
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