1. Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages 150-152 (January 2005)
Contrary to HIV, hepatitis C virus is not associated with erythrocytes in vivo 
Salima Sadallah, Markus Heim, Christoph Hess, Thomas Klimkait, Manuel Battegay, Jürg A. Schifferli 
Journal of Hepatology 
Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages (January 2005)
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2. Fig. 1
HCV-RNA in whole blood compared to erythrocytes pool in HCV chronically infected patients. The erythrocyte pool of HCV-RNA (IU/ml: International Units per milliliter) was compared to the total amount of HCV-RNA (IU/ml) recovered in whole blood (plasma+erythrocytes). Sixty-five of the samples had a negative erythrocyte HCV viral load i.e. below the threshold (bold line: 600IU/ml) of the quantitative PCR assay. The 57 positive samples had an erythrocyte HCV viral load distributed as follow: 46 below 1% of the total viral load—10 below 10% of the total viral load. Only one sample had a HCV RNA erythrocyte viral load just above 10%.
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