Hepatitis C virus quantification in serum and saliva of HCV-infected patients

Hepatitis C virus quantification in serum and saliva of HCV-infected patients

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be detected in blood and other bodily fluids, such as saliva, semen and gastric juices. The aim of this study was to compare the HCV viral loads in the serum and saliva of infected patients. Twenty-nine patients with detectable HCV RNA in their serum and saliva were i...

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Main Authors: Gisele Barreto Lopes Menezes, Fernanda Albuquerque Pereira, César Augusto Barros Duarte, Theomira Mauadie Azevedo Carmo, Hermes Pedreira da Silva Filho, Maria Alice Zarife, Marco Aurélio Krieger, Eliana Almeida Gomes Reis, Mitermayer G Reis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2012-08-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
Subjects:
HCV
HCV transmission
serum HCV load
salivary HCV load
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762012000500016&lng=en&tlng=en

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