Hepatitis C Virus

Mixed cryoglobulinemia is characterized by higher hepatitis C virus load

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 6th, 2006

Recent research from Italy published in the journal Clinical and Experimental Immunology has chronicled the virological analysis and phenotypic characterization of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients with and without mixed cryoglobulinemia (MC).

"In clinical and pathological terms HCV-infected patients can be subdivided into two main groups: with and without MC. Involvement of blood mononuclear cells by HCV has potentially important implications."

"To this end," wrote D. Sansonno and colleagues, University of Bari, "HCV-RNA levels in PBL preparations of 20 chronically HCV-infected patients with MC...

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