Objective To discuss the clinical significance of HCV‐cAg testing in the diagnosis, activity
determination, and monitoring of therapeutic effectiveness of HCV infection and its …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is increasingly common among human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV)-infected men who have sex with men. We evaluated the efficacy of HCV core antigen …

India contributes significantly to the global burden of HCV. While the nucleoside NS5B
inhibitor sofosbuvir became available in the Indian market in March 2015, the other directly …

HCV is a hepatotropic single strained positive sense RNA virus belongs to family
Flaviviridae. HCV is worldwide distributed virus affects about 185 million peoples as a result …

Abstract Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) core antigen is a serological marker of current
HCV infection. Objectives The aim of this study was mainly to evaluate the performance …

Purpose The major bottleneck in most developing countries to attain the WHO goal of
eliminating hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030 is the limited access to molecular …

Background The study aimed to evaluate a fully automated chemiluminescent immunoassay
and compared it with a quantitative RNA assay and anti-HCV assay to verify the utility of this …

Abstract Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) antigen testing is less expensive than
quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction but has lower sensitivity for very …

Background Insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS1) plays a critical role in insulin signaling. IRS-
1 gene polymorphism with glycine to arginine substitution (GGG↔ AGG substitutions) in …

Background Screening of blood donors in many countries is based on the use of serologic
assays to detect specific anti-HCV antibodies (HCV Ab), but it lacks detection sensitivity. So …