Quantification of genotype 4 serum samples: Impact of hepatitis C virus genetic variability

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Philippe Halfon et al. Hepatology. 2010 Jul.

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Genotype 4 hepatitis C virus: beware of false-negative RNA detection.
Akhavan S, Ronsin C, Laperche S, Thibault V. Akhavan S, et al. Hepatology. 2011 Mar;53(3):1066-7. doi: 10.1002/hep.23975. Epub 2010 Dec 28. Hepatology. 2011. PMID: 21374684 No abstract available.

The Cobas AmpliPrep-Cobas TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction assay fails to detect hepatitis C virus RNA in highly viremic genotype 4 clinical samples.
Chevaliez S, Bouvier-Alias M, Castéra L, Pawlotsky JM. Chevaliez S, et al. Hepatology. 2009 Apr;49(4):1397-8. doi: 10.1002/hep.22767. Hepatology. 2009. PMID: 19330876 No abstract available.
Quantification of genotype 4 hepatitis C virus RNA by the COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan hepatitis C virus test.
Germer JJ, Bommersbach CE, Schmidt DM, Bendel JL, Yao JD. Germer JJ, et al. Hepatology. 2009 Nov;50(5):1679-80; author reply 1681. doi: 10.1002/hep.23282. Hepatology. 2009. PMID: 19876947 No abstract available.