"Significance of Asymptomatic, Anti-HCV Positive Blood Donors."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift, "The aim of the study was to determine the frequency and course of hepatitis C viremia in clinically healthy, anti-HCV positive test subjects, and to ascertain whether the HCV antibodies of the IgM type differed between viremia and immunity. In 21 anti-HCV positive blood donors (test subjects) with normal transaminase activity, two serum samples, taken at an interval of 25 ± 10 months, have been investigated for HCV-RNA and HCV-IgM antibodies. In a total of 16 test subjects (76%) HCV-RNA was found during the first test and/or the follow-up: 14 of them were positive on both...

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