Second-Generation Hepatitis C Elisa Antibody Tests Confirmed by the Four-Antigen Recombinant Immunoblot Assay Correlate Well with Hepatitis C Viremia and Chronic Liver Disease in Swedish Blood Donors

Vox Sanguinis ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
S. Shev ◽  
U. Foberg ◽  
A. Fryden ◽  
S. Hermodsson ◽  
G. Lindh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liver Disease ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Chronic Liver Disease ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Chronic Liver ◽  
Immunoblot Assay ◽  
Recombinant Immunoblot Assay ◽  
Antibody Tests

Hepatitis C virus infection in patients with chronic liver disease or chronic renal failure and blood donors in Thailand

1994 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pairoj Luengrojanakul ◽  
Kriengsak Vareesangthip ◽  
Termchai Chainuvati ◽  
Kazumoto Murata ◽  
Fumio Tsuda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Failure ◽  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Liver Disease ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Chronic Renal Failure ◽  
Virus Infection ◽  
Chronic Liver Disease ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Chronic Liver ◽  
Hepatitis C Virus Infection

scholarly journals Hepatitis G virus infection in chronic liver disease

Gut ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Guilera ◽  
J C Sáiz ◽  
F X López-Labrador ◽  
E Olmedo ◽  
S Ampurdanés ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽  
Chronic Hepatitis ◽  
Liver Disease ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Chronic Liver Disease ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Chronic Liver ◽  
Hepatitis G Virus ◽  
Cryptogenic Chronic Liver Disease

Background—The hepatitis G virus (HGV), a recently identified member of the Flaviviridae family, can cause chronic infection in man but the role of this agent in chronic liver disease is poorly understood.Aims—To evaluate the prevalence and meaning of HGV infection in a large series of patients with chronic liver disease.Subjects—Two hundred volunteer blood donors, 179 patients with chronic hepatitis C, 111 with chronic hepatitis B, 104 with alcoholic liver disease, 136 with hepatocellular carcinoma, and 24 with cryptogenic chronic liver disease were studied.Methods—HGV RNA was investigated in serum samples by reverse transcription and polymerase chain reaction amplification of the 5′ non-coding region of HCV and hybridisation to a specific probe. The main features of HGV RNA seropositive and seronegative patients were compared.Results—The prevalence of HGV infection was 3% in blood donors, 7% in chronic hepatitis C, 8% in chronic hepatitis B, 2% in alcoholic liver disease, 4% in hepatocellular carcinoma, and 8% in cryptogenic chronic liver disease. HGV infected patients tended to be younger than non-infected patients but no differences concerning sex, possible source of infection, clinical manifestations, biochemical and virological parameters, or severity of liver lesions were found.Conclusions—The prevalence of HGV infection in chronic liver disease seems to be relatively low in our area. Infection with HGV does not seem to play a significant pathogenic role in patients with chronic liver disease related to chronic HBV or HCV infection or to increased alcohol consumption, or in those with cryptogenic chronic liver disease.

Quantitation of hepatitis C virus RNA in serum of asymptomatic blood donors and patients with type C chronic liver disease

Hepatology ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideki Hagiwara ◽  
Norio Hayashi ◽  
Eiji Mita ◽  
Masafumi Naito ◽  
Akinori Kasahara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Liver Disease ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Chronic Liver Disease ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Chronic Liver ◽  
Hepatitis C Virus Rna ◽  
Virus Rna ◽  
Type C

Hepatitis C-related chronic liver disease among asymptomatic blood donors in the North West of England

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. McLindon ◽  
W. Keith Paver ◽  
Christopher Babbs ◽  
Andrew D. Yates ◽  
Raymond F.T. McMahon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liver Disease ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Chronic Liver Disease ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Chronic Liver ◽  
North West ◽  
The North
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