Greater Amount of HCV-RNA in Tears Compared to Blood
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Microbiology and Immunology
- Vol. 38 (2) , 157-158
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1348-0421.1994.tb01758.x
Abstract
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.Keywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Close correlation between hepatitis C virus serology and polymerase chain reaction in chronically infected patientsInfection, 1992
- Detection of HCV RNA in saliva, urine, seminal fluid, and ascitesJournal of Medical Virology, 1992
- Typing of hepatitis C virus genomes by restriction fragment length polymorphismJournal of General Virology, 1991
- Characterization of the terminal regions of hepatitis C viral RNA: identification of conserved sequences in the 5' untranslated region and poly(A) tails at the 3' end.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1991
- ISOLATION OF HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS TYPE III FROM THE TEARS OF A PATIENT WITH THE ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROMEThe Lancet, 1985