Evaluation of dried blood spots as a feasible alternative to plasma for the detection and quantification of hepatitis c virus in a tropical setting: A pilot study

Conclusions: DBS can be used for sampling patients from distant resource-limited settings as an alternative to plasma for HCV RNA estimation. Larger studies are required to evaluate the feasibility of DBS in the Indian subcontinent, especially for HCV core antigen estimation.

Source: Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology - August 15, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jai Ranjan Suresh Ponnuvel Gnanadurai John Fletcher Raghavendran Anantharam Kalaivani Radhakrishnan Visalakshi Jeyaseelan Priya Abraham Source Type: research