Interpretation of Real-Time PCR Results for Hepatitis C Virus RNA When Viral Load Is Below Quantification Limits

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Laperche, Syria | Bouchardeau, Françoise | Thibault, Vincent | Roque-Afonso, Anne-Marie | Trimoulet, Pascale | Colimon, Ronald | Duverlie, Gilles | Leguillou-Guillemette, Hélène | Lunel, Françoise | Bouvier-Alias, Magali | Pawlotsky, Michel | Henquell, Cécile | Schvoerer, Evelyne | Stoll-Keller, Françoise | Chaix, Marie-Laure | Branger, Michel | Gaudy-Graffin, Catherine | Rosenberg, Arielle, R. | Pozzetto, Bruno | Vallet, Sophie | Baazia, Yazid | Izopet, Jacques | Lefrere, Jean-Jacques | André-Garnier, Elisabeth

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International audience. Hepatitis C virus RNA quantification results obtained in 18 laboratories using real-time PCR methods with 10 negative samples and 22 sample dilutions (viral loads of 0.5 to 500 IU/ml) showed a score of correct results of up to 93.5%. However, 55.6% of the laboratories did not follow the recommendations for the interpretation of their results, leading to ambiguous conclusions.

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