Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a hepatotropic RNA virus that causes progressive liver damage,
which might result in liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Globally, between 64 and …

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis B (HBV) and Hepatitis C (HCV) are blood-
borne viruses with potentially shared routes of transmission. In high-income settings, the …

Web Annexes Page 1 Page | i GUIDELINES ON HEPATITIS B AND C TESTING February 2017
GUIDELINES ANNEXES Page 2 Page | ii WHO guidelines on hepatitis B and C testing ISBN …

Blood collected and dried on a paper card–dried blood spot (DBS)–knows a growing
interest as a sampling method that can be performed outside care facilities by capillary …

Inorganic nanoparticles are ideal precursors for engineering barcodes for rapidly detecting
diseases. Despite advances in the chemical design of these barcodes, they have not …

Testing and diagnosis of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the gateway for access to both
treatment and prevention services, and crucial for an effective hepatitis epidemic response …

Background Increasingly, vaccine efficacy studies are being recommended in low-and-
middle-income countries (LMIC), yet often facilities are unavailable to take and store infant …

Worldwide, the increasingly dominant model of laboratory testing is the centralised
laboratory, in which automation of analytical processes increases, enabling the analysis of …

Background Dried blood spots (DBS) are a convenient tool to enable diagnostic testing for
viral diseases due to transport, handling and logistical advantages over conventional …

Objective To estimate population-wide hepatitis B and C seroprevalence using dried blood
spot samples acquired for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) surveillance as part of the …