Hepatitis C Virus
Hepatitis C virus genotypes determined in real time
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 8th, 2006
"The genotypes of HCV in serum of patients have been described as independent predictors of success of antiviral therapy. Therefore, different antiviral regimens have been proposed depending on the infecting HCV genotype," wrote A. Moghaddam and colleagues, Furst Medical Laboratory.
They continued, "HCV strain is usually determined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of genome followed by sequencing or by line-probe assays. We report a new one step real-time PCR assay for genotyping of HCV strains that are prevalent in patients...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2006-05-08)
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