Diagnostics - HCV
"Preclinical Evaluation of AMPLICOR Hepatitis C Virus Test for Detection of Hepatitis C Virus RNA."
Published in Blood Weekly, August 7th, 1995
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, "We compared a single-enzyme, combined reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR; AMPLICOR HCV Test; Roche Molecular Systems, Branchburg, N.J.) with an independent, two-enzyme, standard RT-PCR (SRT-PCR) assay for the detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA in serum and plasma. Test samples included a proficiency testing panel consisting of 10 undiluted plasma samples, three separate dilution series, and sera from 99 patients with chronic liver disease. The quantity of HCV RNA in each patient serum sample was determined by a branched DNA (bDNA) signal amplification assay (Quantiplex HCV-RNA assay;...
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