Nearly half of patients in the general population who test positive for hepatitis C virus (HCV) do not have the disease, according to Dr. Anne Moorman and her associates.
From a sample of 22,359 National Health and Nutrition Examination Study participants, 479 people received positive HCV antibody test results from 2007 to 2012. Of this group, 477 participants underwent further follow-up testing using a recombinant immunoblot assay. RIBA testing confirmed positive test results for 323 participants, while 105 patients received negative test results and 49 received indeterminate test results.
Continue reading....
From a sample of 22,359 National Health and Nutrition Examination Study participants, 479 people received positive HCV antibody test results from 2007 to 2012. Of this group, 477 participants underwent further follow-up testing using a recombinant immunoblot assay. RIBA testing confirmed positive test results for 323 participants, while 105 patients received negative test results and 49 received indeterminate test results.
Continue reading....
No comments:
Post a Comment