Research Article
New Tools in HCV Diagnosis, in Light of the Enhanced Awareness and the New Drugs for Treatment: SMARTube and Stimmunology
Table 2
Early HCV infections missed by current serology and detected using the SMARTube pretreatment step and SMARTplasma as the sample tested.
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*HCV seropositives, confirmed by local algorithms. **HCV infections missed by regular serology, but detected using the SMARTube HIV & HCV. ***Rate of missed infections was calculated as the % of HCV positive samples, which were in the window period, from the total infected individuals in that population. |