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Greater Amount of HCV‐RNA in Tears Compared to Blood
Author(s) -
Feucht Heinzhubert,
Polywka Susanne,
Zöllner Bernhard,
Laufs Rainer
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
microbiology and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1348-0421
pISSN - 0385-5600
DOI - 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1994.tb01758.x
Subject(s) - biology , tears , virology , rna , immunology , genetics , gene
Plasma, tear fluid and swabs from eye, nose and pharynx of 33 patients were examined for presence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). All samples from plasma, tear fluid and eyeswabs were found to show a positive reaction in HCV‐RNA PCR. Remarkably, we regularly found greater amounts of amplification products in tear fluid and eyeswabs compared to plasma using the same conditions for sample preparation.