Application of antigen-antibody joint detection in increasing detection rate of HCV infection in patients with hemodialysis / 国际检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To invetigate the application value of antigen‐antibody joint detection in increasing the detection rate of hepatitis C infection in the patients with hemodialysis .Methods The clinical data of 100 cases of hemodialysis were collected .Hep‐atitis C virus(HCV) core antigen ,HCV antibody and HCV‐RNA were detected by adopting ELISA ,Chemiluminescence and RT‐PCR respectively .The positive expression situation of each detection item in the same specimen was performed statistics .The detec‐tion rates of RNA positive specimen were compared among the single antigen detection ,single antibody detection and joint detection schemes ;at the same time the antigen level of antigen positive specimens ant its RNA copy number were performed the correlation analysis .The antibody levels in the positive antibody specimens were compared between the RNA positive group and the RNA neg‐ative group .Results The single antigen or single antibody detection could cause the missed detection of HCV infection in hemodial‐ysis patients .For the specimens of positive RNA ,the joint detection had the highest detection rate (P0 .05) .Conclusion The joint detection of HCV antigen antibody can effectively increase the detection rate of hepatitis C infection in hemodialysis patients .At the same time the HCV core antigen detection also can be used as one of monitoring indicators for the HCV re -infection in the patients with antibody positive .