"An Epitope Chimeric Antigen for the Hepatitis C Virus Serological Screening Test."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin, "The epitope chimeric antigen, CepCM, composed of the 9 selected major epitope regions (two in NS3, two each in the NS4 of two genotypes, two each in the core of two genotype, and one in the core in hepatitis C virus (HCV) polypeptide), was expressed as a fusion protein of the trpE peptide in E. coli. An ELISA test using this antigen produced the same judgements with most of the panel sera as a second generation HCV screening kit. Though discrepancies were found in twelve samples (5% of the samples), further analysis revealed that eleven samples were indeterminate sera as judged by...

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