Diagnostics (HCV)

Low-Cost Peptide Test Simplifies HCV Testing

Published in Blood Weekly, August 30th, 1999

A low-cost, locally-produced, peptide-based hepatitis C test could help detect hepatitis C virus transmissions in underdeveloped areas.

Screening and confirmatory low cost reagent tests have been developed for detection of anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV). Assays are based on the use of specific synthetic peptides from several structural and non-structural viral proteins.

In this study, A. Palacios and colleagues compared the efficacy of the screening anti-HCV EIA-Spep assay with both Abbott EIA 2.0 (Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Illinois) and Ortho EIA 2.0 (Ortho Diagnostic Systems, Raritan, New Jersey) anti-HCV detection. They also compared the...

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