Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Hidden chronic hepatitis C infections remain hard to detect

Hidden chronic hepatitis C infections remain hard to detect
By Mark L. Fuerst
Strategies to detect HCV and hepatitis B virus (HBV) hidden in the general population have been disappointing. “Past drug users or recipients of blood transfusions remain hidden as they may not remember or report these behaviors. Additionally, not all HCV cases are part of a known risk group. To capture all persons who have HCV infection, prospective studies were needed to evaluate the diagnostic yield of HCV testing strategies not based on exposure risk factors,” Jeanne Heil, MSc, of the Public Health Service in Heerlen, The Netherlands, told Medical Economics.

The researchers published their results January 8, 2018 in Annals of Family Medicine.

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