Typing of Hepatitis C Virus Antibody with Specific Peptides in Seropositive Blood Donors and Comparison with Genotyping of Viral RNA

Abstract

This is a practical and useful method for typing HCV infections in the clinical setting. The poor ability of the Core peptides to give the serotype in samples lacking anti-NS4 and the lack of specific peptides to recognize HCV types other than 1, 2, and 3 are, however, some aspects of the method that need improvement in the future.