Molecular Study of Occult Hepatitis C Infection among Iranian Hemophilia Patients Treated with Direct-acting Antiviral Agents

• Main Authors: Elnaz Agi (Author), Saber Asghari (Author), Ali Namvar (Author), Niloofar Khairkhah (Author), Niloofar Naderi (Author), Ali Anvar (Author), Alireza Azizi Saraji (Author), Azam Bolhassani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Pasteur Institute of Iran, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction: A new pathological form of HCV named as occult HCV infection (OCI) has been recently characterized by the presence of HCV RNA in liver biopsy and/or peripheral blood mononuclear cell specimens (PBMCs) and the absence of detectable circulating HCV RNA in plasma samples. In this study, w...