Bibliographic Info
GuidelineWHO guidelines on hepatitis B and C testing.
Year of Publication2017
Issuing InstitutionWHO
Recommendation
Status
Maintained
Recommended in favor
Strong
Certainty of evidence
Moderate
Directly following a positive HCV antibody serological test result, the use of quantitative or qualitative nucleic acid testing (NAT) for detection of HCV ribonucleic acid (RNA) is recommended as the preferred strategy to diagnose viraemic infection.
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