HCV is a major cause of acute hepatitis and chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis2 and liver cancer. Globally, an estimated 170 million persons are chronically infected with HCV and 3 to 4 million persons are newly infected each year. HCV is spread primarily by direct contact with human blood. The major causes of HCV infection worldwide are use of unscreened blood transfusions, and re-use of needles and syringes that have not been adequately sterilised.
The general method of detecting infection with hepatitis C is to observe the presence of antibodies to the virus by an EIA method. The advanced quality rapid anti-HCV test is a simple, visual qualitative test that detects HCV antibodies in human whole blood, serum or plasma. The test is based on immunochromatography and can give a result within 10 minutes.
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