Detection and Quantification of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) by MultiCode-RTx Real-Time PCR Targeting the HCV 3′ Untranslated Region
- 1 August 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 47 (8), 2635-2638
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.02170-08
Abstract
A prototype, real-time reverse-transcription PCR assay, based on MultiCode-RTx technology, quantifying hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA by targeting the HCV 3′ untranslated region demonstrated linearity over 7 logs, with a good correlation between the quantitative results of this assay and the results of two commercially available comparator assays for 466 clinical specimens comprising all six HCV genotypes.Keywords
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