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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-12-7
pubmed:abstractText
Most haemophiliacs treated with non-virally inactivated concentrates have been infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). 19/21 (90%) patients with HCV antibody were found to have HCV RNA in their serum and in 16 of these it was also detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). We used specific primers to detect the negative (replicative) strand of this single positively stranded virus. The negative strand was detected in the serum or PBMC of 16 patients indicating active replication outside the liver. The detection of replicating HCV RNA in the cells of HIV negative haemophiliacs could explain at least some of the immunological abnormalities previously reported in these patients and attributed to clotting factor concentrates.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0007-1048
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
87
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
215-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-9-29
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Peripheral mononuclear cells of haemophiliacs with chronic liver disease are infected with replicating hepatitis C virus.
pubmed:affiliation
Section of Molecular Genetics, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't